GREAT WAR FORESEEN
ARMS MANUFACTURERS. KNEW CONFLICT WAS BREWING. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Washington, December 4. Evidence that arms manufacturers knew as early as 1908 that a “tremendous conflict was brewing” in Europe was presented to-day to the United States Senate Munitions Committee. The committee also received evidence that the United States Government had assigned the delivery of some of its munitions contracts to the British Navy from 1914 to 1916. The committee said that a brief filed by the Colt Patent Firearms Company with the Government in a tax case indicated the company’s anticipation of war. The brief stated: “We knew a tremendous conflict was brewing and we spent the money necessary to organize our sales force throughout Europe.” S. M. Stone, president of the company, who was testifying, said he did not have any more definite knowledge of impending war than the average citizen. The deliveries of munitions contracts were made through Canada to Britain. The brief read to the committee said that the author was Benedict Holden, the attorney for the Colt Company.
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Southland Times, Issue 22497, 6 December 1934, Page 5
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