THE MUNITIONS INQUIRY

Evening Star, Issue 21881, 19 November 1934, Page 9

THE MUNITIONS INQUIRY

INTRDDUUTIDN OF KING'S NAME EXPLANATION BY COMMITTEE CHAIRMAN Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright OTTAWA, November 16. The effect of the introduction of the King’s name into the Senate committee’s investigation into the munitions industry at the Washington hearing recently was to embarrass the inquiry, according to Senator General Nyc, chairman of the committee, who discussed the incident in an interview here on‘Friday. Explaining how the communication containing a reference to the King was introduced, the Senator said: “It was brought in with the consent of the entire committee. There was hardly a second thought given to it at the time. Had we refrained from inserting it, though, there would have come a day of reckoning with the discovery that we had left out the name of King George. There are people who delight in taking a rap at him, and we should never have heard the last of it. There was no charge or any spirit of accusation accompanying the committee’s action, and it became part of the official record of the committee and stands for just exactly what it is, nothing more or less. It involved a letter written by a representative of an American munitions firm who was striving to explain what terrific competition he had, and his alibi in part seemed to want to show that British munitions competition even had resort to the King.”