ARMAMENTS ENQUIRY
S. AMERICAN TRANSACTIONS. [BY CABLE —PBESB ASSN. —00/YBIGHT.] WASHINGTON, September 5. Giving evidence at the Senate Committee’s investigations into the munitions trade, Mr. L. T. Spear, Vice-President of the Electric Boat Coy., said: “Civilisation cannot stand another general war!” The Senate Committee’s second day of hearings also brought out the testimony that the Electric Boat Company, allied with the Vickers Coy., of Britain, had used the influence of the 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 traditional animosities of Latin-American countries had been played upon to this end. It also developed that the United States naval experts had attributed the South American armament race, in part, to the fact that Chile, aftei’ the Great War, upset the balance of powfer by buying six submarines and a couple of other fighting craft from England.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 7 September 1934, Page 7
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