ARMAMENTS TRADE.
INQUIRY BY BRITAIN ? LONDON, Nov. 1. The Daily Mail says that the Government has decided to establish an inquiry into the manufacture and sale of war materials, which may be the prelude to a world conference on the private manufacture of arms. THE AMERICAN INQUIRY. QUESTION IN THE COMMONS. LONDON, Oct. 31. In the House of Commons Labour members raised the question of a letter from Sir Charles Craven, managing director of Vickers, Armstrongs, read at the United States, arms inquiry, alleging that a “friend in the Admiralty would get the firm a submarine contract.” Sir Bolton Eyres-Monsell, I irst Lord of the Admiralty, replied that an immediate investigation revealed no trace of partiality for any firm. Sir Charles Craven, who claimed that there were discrepancies between the reports and the actual letter, regretted the letter, and gave an assurance that he had not intended any reflection on the impartiality of the director of contracts.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 9
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157ARMAMENTS TRADE. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIV, Issue 288, 2 November 1934, Page 9
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