ANTI-TRUST SUIT

Evening Star, Issue 25068, 8 January 1944, Page 4

ANTI-TRUST SUIT

LORD KcGOWAN'S INDIGNANT GENIAL INIQUITOUS CHARGES (Rec. 11 a.m.) LONDON, January 7. . Lord McGowan has'issued an additional statement on the American antitrust suit. He said that since making the statement cabled yesterday his attention had been drawn to statements made by the United States Assistant Attorney-General. Mr Wendell berme. "While 1 have not yet the complete report, Mr Berge clearly states that in his view ,the activities of Imperial Chemical Industries and du Pont frustrated the Allied war effort and involved collaboration with the enemy. 1 cannot wait to obtain more exact information before denying utterly and totally any suggestion that any'action of ours.' during the war and, indeed, before the war, was of any other character than designed to assist both tan British and the Allied. Governments by every means in our power. We lent freely our ablest colleagues, staff, and workers, including thousands of key men. to all Government .departments and factories who asked for them. We pluced our research, patents, and processes, our knowledge, technical and commercial, for purposes of war unreservedly at the disposal of the Government, and through it of America and (Russia. Our war effort has been .freely recognised and appreciated by the Ministries of all three services''supply departments, the other Ministers and their departments. I wish, therefore, on behalf of myself, Lord Melchett, my colleagues and the 120,000 men and women working in our factories, the 15.000 of our employees serving in the armed forces, to issue a flat denial to these .iniquitous charges, and'to make it clear that we are prepared to meet them fully and in detail at tho proper time and place."