TRAFFIC IN ARMS
ROYAL COMMISSION
PERSONNEL ANNOUNCED
TERMS OF REFERENCE
(British Official Wireless.) (Received February 19, noon.) ..■•.. , RUGBY, February- 18. The Prime Minister, Mr. Ramsay Mac Donald, announced in the House of Commons today that Sir John Eldon Bankes, formerly Lord Justice of Appeal, would be chairman.of the Royal Commission'on the traffic in arms. The other members, would be Sir Thomas Allen, Dame Rachael Crowdy, Sir Philip Gibbs, Professor Guttefidge, Sir Kenneth Lee, and Mr. J. A. Spender. The terms of reference are:— "To consider and report upon the practicability and desirability, both from a national and international point of view, of the adoption, (I) by the ■United Kingdom alone, and, (2) by the United in conjunction with other countries of the world, of the prohibition of the private manufacture of and trade in arms andi munitions of war and the institution of a State monopoly of such manufacture and trade. "To consider and report whether there are any steps which can usefully be taken to remove or minimise the kinds of objectidns to which private manufacture is stated in Article 8 of the Covenant of the League of Nations to be open. "To examine the present arrangements in force.in the United Kingdom relative to the control of the export trade in arms and munitions of war and to report whether these arrangements require revision, and, if so" in what directions." . The, Royal Commission will be appointed under the usual form of warrant giving powers to call persons before them to give evidence, to call for information in writing, and to call for and examine documents. >.. Sir John Simon stated that the British Government had welcomed the United States proposals for the regulation and control of manufacture of and trade m arms, and had accepted them as a basis of discussion. - The British Government would have certain modifications of and additions to the American draft to put forward during the'de'^r,!, 3.! °L eneva ot the committee which held its first meeting last Thursday. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 9
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333TRAFFIC IN ARMS Evening Post, Volume CXIX, Issue 42, 19 February 1935, Page 9
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