The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-11
Arms Firms Sales
Show Link Of U.s.,
Britain and Japan
Promotion of the Chaco
War for Investments
Also Revealed
BY Marguerite Young

DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)
WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. 10
A British arms corporation selling
stocks owned by the British Gov
eminent and identified as "a semi
official Government agency" wrote
their American agents last March
"a that to place herself in for
midahle position, japan must either
buy over the Soyiets or fight them
and Japan will do one or the
her before attending to some
more of China" The British agen-
cy therefore suggested that the
American agents approach the
United States Department of For
eign Affairs and the War Depart
ment,7 and inform them of NUM-
tons stocks for sale in case some
sudden emergency did arise in the
Far East"
This direct, official evidence that
British, Chinese and American i'm
perialists, depending upon their
governments cooperation, are
ganging up on the Chinese Soviets
was presented today in the Senate
munitions investigation. 1t was one
Of the days spectacular develop
ments. The testimony showed also:
Threatened Brazil Tax
/. That American munitions
makers used the threat of an
American tax upon coffee imports
to push sales to Brazil recently, al
though previously The Minister of
Finance here lin BraziD has been
able to keep off the American COT
fee tax by promising the Roosevelt
administration that the preference
Tin buying munitions) will be given
by the (Brazilian) Government to
purchase from the U.SA."
2. That the United States State
Department, asked for information
as to the precise effect of the re-
cent United States embargo on
arms to Bolivia and Paraguay in
the Chaco war, advised an Ameri-
can munitions maker to "try to
ship your stuff and if the Govern
ment's agencies presumably the
Customsl block your way, hire the
best lawyers available and get an
injunction against the Govern
ment."
Push Arms Sales to Colombia
3. That American munitions
men, with the aid of foreign repre-
sentatives of this Government, were
pushing sales to Colombia Gas was
also being done in Peru during a
time when these two South Ameri-
can countries supposedly were OBJ
serving an armistice in the Leticia
dispute.
4. That the British firm referred
to above, assuring its American
agents that all graft would be taken
care of, wrote bluntly that 1--WE
fully understood that arms deals
are not usually done without some
officials getting creased, but if any
palm oil is required, it has to be
added to the price" It said, too,
that there have also been cases
where certain concessions were Civ
en-" the American agent testified
that these concessions referred to
timber oil and other natural re-
sources rights.
Committee Pulls Punches
Even as these disclosures kept
the big hearing room in suspenes
tcday, spectators freely asked one
another how long the Nye- Vanden-
berg committee will continue. The
question is not whether they will
stop short of disclosing all the in
formation in their possession-but
rather where the deadline will be
drawn. 1t is rumored, in fact, that
they have already pulled some
punches on orders from higher up.
They have summoned Felix and
Lammot DUPONT of the mammoth
American firm of E. I. dupont de
Nemours, family having members
who we're among the heaviest con-
tributors to the 1882 campaign Of
President Roosevelt. The duPonts
have already declared that their
testimony should be taken behind
closed doors. The committee,
though unble to do this after once
calling them, obviously cannot de-
y,1op all the facts.
Your correspondent obtained vir-
tual confirmation today, from
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