STATE MUNITION FACTORIES
NOT FAVOURED BY MR MAC, , : ■ ' DONALD . ? LICENSING SYSTEM THE BEST ’ (United Press Association—By Electric > . Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 14th November, 1.30 p.m.) LONDON, 13th November, .. , “I will never forget immediately after : the war I visited the Dardanelles and saw the broken and discarded Turkish guns pointing towards the shore on which our men hung so long by; their eyebrows. On those guns was. a brass, label bearing the name of a British., armament firm,” said the Hon. Ramsay MacDonald, Prime Minister, during his. speech at Southampton. “Nevertheless,” he continued, ”-“no Eractical politician would countenance■ tate munition factories. All know the dangers, including unsavoury compete- • tion of private armament.firms'. I think the best remedy is the adoption' by other' countries of the British licensing system.” • • >•
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXVI, 14 November 1934, Page 5
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