SALE OF ARMAMENTS
ANIMOSITIES PLAYED UPON THE AMERICAN INQUIRY Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright WASHINGTON, September 5. In his evidence at the munitions inquiry Mr Spear (vice-president of the Electric Boat Company) said: “Civilisation cannot stand another general war.” The committee’s second day of heatings also brought out testimony that the Electric Boat Company, allied with Vickers, had used the influence of United States naval missions to Brazil and Peru in an effort to sell submarines and other armaments at a substantial profit. There were charges, too, that the traditional animosities of Latin-Americail countries had been played upon to this end. It also developed. that United States naval experts attributed the South American armament race in part to the fact that Chile, after the Great War, upset the balance of power by buying six submarines and a couple of other fighting craft from England.
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Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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143SALE OF ARMAMENTS Evening Star, Issue 21819, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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