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members said showed interference by
the munitions industry in diSarma-
ment and other peace negotiations.
DR.. Manley o. Hudson, Harvard law
professor, was the first witness. He
said the proposed arms control plan
recently submitted to the world by the
United States represented the high
water mark Of postwar effort to
control munitions of war.
1t provided for licensing companies
dealing in munitions and for full re-
ports of such activities.
Hudson. one of the Senate commit
tees advisers, said:
If such a treaty could be put into
effect by the principal producing ma
tions. and if it could be properly i'm
plemented by national legislation, it
would constitute a great step for
ward"
World Action Held Needed.
Hudson, a member of the Perma-
nent Court of Arbitration at The
1ldS dC, OAHU SOiib4O2 Vi a. Aio NodAS
come only through international &C
ton.
Hudson said the treaty proposed by
the United States goes long way
rigidly to supervise manufacture as
well as trade in arms.
AS Hudson left the stand the COM
mittee called jointly Irenee du Pont,
Mr. Stone, the president of the Colt
company. and H. F. Beebe, manager OF
the Foreign Department of the Win
chester Arms Co.
AS Nye began to question Stone
about his company's relations with
foreign manufacturers, members Of
the committee staff disclosed sus-
picions that documents desired by the
investigators had disappeared from the
files at the Du Pont company.
One committee official said some of
the investigators had suspicious of
this kind, but that the committee was
not in position to prove them.
Stone said his company prior to the
war had licensing arrangements with
the National Arms Manufacturing Co.
of Belgium and Vickers, Ltd, of Eng
land for manufacture of certain arms
in countries designated by the Colt
company.
VickerS, he said, made machine guns
for Russia under contract with the
Colt company.
New Evidence Indicated.
Before today's hearing opened.
Chairman Nye said the committee had
uncovered evidence that European
munitions makers deliberately "scut-
tied" a Geneva plan to control world
trade in implements of war. He said
the evidence would be revealed in the
new series of committee hearings.
Arms manufacturers, Nye said, sat
at the elbows of some official dele
gates to an international conference
held at Geneva in 1925, and influ-
enced them in writing an agreement
so innocuous as to be hopeless
The European group of arms men,
he asserted. also appealed to American
manufacturers for assistance and got
it. Munitions officials knew who the
American delegates were three weeks
before the list was made public, he
said.
State Department Acts.
While these assertions were being
made, it became Known that the State
Department has taken a new step to
expedite international action on
Americas proposal to control the
manufacture and sale of munitions.
Secretary of State Hull has called
Hugh r. Wilson, Minister to Switzer-
land, to Washington for a conference
After discussing the proposal in the
light of European reaction, Wilson
will return to Geneva in time to push
for its adoption at the January meet
ing Of the Disarmament Conferences
Special Arms Control Committee