WAR MONGERS
BUSY IN FRANCE TO-DAY LLOYD GEORGE’S ALLEGATIONS LONDON. May 6. Arguing that the manufacture of arms should be a Government monopoly, 1 Mr D. Lloyd George, giving evidence before the Arms Commi&s.on, recalled the pre-war dreadnought p-anitc He said ! that Germany’s naval programme was ' then exaggerated. There was a great agitation for big ships, and armament firms gave evidence to a Cabinet Committee to the effect that they j>.-ssessed • secret information that the Germans 1 were laying down ships considerably ' in excess of the published statutory 1 naval plan. No doubt the evidence in- I fluenced Cabinet. It turned out to be 5 completely inaccurate, but in the mean- ( time it had diverted the Admiralty < from building small craft. There was ’ more profit in big ships. f “From all I hear, the armament in- ( terests in France are just a-s active on t the same lines to-day, and rheir methods c are even more pernicious.’* i
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 79, Issue 108, 8 May 1936, Page 7
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