MUNITIONS ENQUIRY

Greymouth Evening Star, 19 November 1934, Page 5

MUNITIONS ENQUIRY

USING THE KING’S NAME. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] OTTAWA, November 16. That the introduction of the King’s name into the U.S.A. Senate Committee investigation of the munitions industry at the Washington hearing recently was to embarrass the inquiry, was the opinion of Senator General Nye, the Chairman of the Committee, who discussed the incident in an interview here. Explaining how the communication containing the reference to King George was introduced, Senator Nye 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, and the discovery that we had left out the name of KingGeorge—there are people who delight in taking a rap at him —we should never have heard the last of it. There was no charge nor any spirit of accusation accompanying the Committee’s doing that. It became a part of the official record of the Committee, and it stands for just exactly what it is, nothing more, nor less. It involved a letter written by the 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 the British munitions competition even had resort to the King.”