PLAN TO HAMPER ARMS INQUIRY

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXVIII, Issue 19960, 19 November 1934, Page 7

PLAN TO HAMPER ARMS INQUIRY

REASON FOR MENTION OF KING’S NAME REVEALED BY CHAIRMAN OF COMMITTEE United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph —Copyright (Received November 18, 6.30 p.m.) OTTAWA, November 16. That the introduction of the King’s name into the Senate Committee of investigation into the munitions industry at the Washington hearing recently was done to embarass the inquiry, is the opinion of Senator General Nye, chairman of the Committee, who discussed the incident in an interview here on Friday. Explaining how the communication containing the reference to the King 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 discovery that we had left out the name of King George. There are people who delight in taking a rap at him, and we should never have heard the last of it. There was no charge, nor any spirit of accusation accompanying the Committee’s doing that. If became part of the official record of the Committee and stands for just exactly what it is, nothing more or less. It in-: volved a letter written by a representative of an American munitions firm, who was striving to explain what terrific competition he had, and his alibi in the part seemed to want to show that British munitions competition even had to resort to the King.”