ARMS INVESTIGATION.
WASHINGTON. December 7. The Senate arms investigation took a different turn to-day as spokesmen for the powerful Du Pont Corporation insisted that it had remained in the powder business only on the plea of high Government officials that its products were essential to national deOne speaker contended that, if the Government were to take over the chemical industry because of the part it played in war. it might as well take over the cotton fields of the south as equally essential in the production of explosives. It was testified that at the time of the World War President Wilson authorised Du Font’s to turn over an improved powder formula to the Allies and that subsequently it never exchanged secrets with foreign manufacturers without the request or permission of the War Department. Senators Nye and Yandenberg sharply criticised both Du Pont's and the War Department, declaring that they had aided in arming potential enemies.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume LXVI, Issue 20484, 10 December 1934, Page 7
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