Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1934-06-10
PUBLIC LIBRARY
CAIRNS AND THE MEN"

The munitions racket is attract
ing world wide attention, the Nye
Committee is conducting a congress
sional investigation of Americas part
in the game, but, as the editors OF
Fortune point out, I'VE are essentially
small fry in this game In the mean
time the fate of the Geneva Confer
ence on Disarmament hangs in the
balance. The Public Library pre-
sents a list of pertinent material on
the question.
Books.
What Would Be the Character OF
New War? by Sir Norman Angell
an dothers. 1929. U.1n8.
Among the articles in this sympo-
Stun issued by the Inter-Parliamen-
tary Union are The Mechanization OF
Warfare by Mai. Gen. ]. F. C. Fuller;
international Ramiflcations OF war
Industry by F. Delaisi; Financial
consequences of War and OF Prepara-
lions for War, by Prof. E. Heckseher;
and many other equally pertinent pa
pers."
Armaments Year Book: General and
Statistical Information. May,
1888. U.6Ar5. (Reference)
How the nations compare in arma-
ments. Compiled by the League OF
Nations.
Merchants of Death, by H. c. Engei-
brecht and F. c. Hanighen. 1884.
I'M En3.
"How many, (readers) will arrive at
the one proper conclusion that war,
like prohibition, is racket, and to
abolish the racketeer you have got to
get rid of the system that makes him
poSsible?"
Cry Havocl by Beverley Nichols. 1888.
JQN517.
"a vigorous study Of ornaments and
where they lead, of the mass destruc-
ton threatened by a mechanistic war,
and the fallacy of the traditional con-
ception of patriotism.
Iron. Blood and Profits. by George
Seldes. 1884. UMSe4.
mo reason for war remains except
sudden profits for the SO men who run
the munitions racket"
Arms and the Men, by the Editors Of
Fortune. Pamphlet). 1884.
"a reprint of the articles which
appeared in the March Fortune. Pur-
chasable for only 10 cents, it summa-
rizes the most important discoveries
In the Investigations that have exposed
the international arms racket.
Magazine Articles.
Studies Of the International Arma-
ments Industry Expose Profiteers
in the Iron and Blood Of War.
American Observer, 3:5. May z,
1884.
A summary of recent findings in the
investigations of the ornaments race
andSts hackers.
Arms and the Men. Fortune. 9:52-57.
March, 1884.
"A primer on Europe's armament
makers; their mines, their smelters,
their banks, their holding companies,
their ability to supply everything you
need for a war from cannons to the
casus belli."
Slaughter for Sale, by John Gunther
Harpers. 168:649-659. May, 1884.
at is plain that no disarmament
can be effective in the world If private
arms makers are free to ply their
trade at will"
The Arms Investigation, by Quincy
Howe. The Living Age, 346: 1902
308. June, 1884.
"Although the Nye Committee may
not uncover an American armament
ring on the scale of Europe's Secret
international it can show that the
private manufacture of arms and the
private control of credit played large
part in prolonging the World War and
finally causing the United States to
intervene"
Inside Story of the Vickers Meeting,
by "A Shareholder Living Age,
345: 326-328. June, 1884.
How the shareholders evaded the
pertinent questions of their more en-
hghtened members.
The Worlds Greatest Racket, by Jo-
names Steel Nation. 138:646-
SAB. June 6, 1884.
"The armament racket has the
singular distinction that those EN-
gagged in it do not mind competition,
for every armament makers realizes
that increased sales In foreign mar
kets by his own or any other firm tn
crease automatically the demand In
the home market"
Armament Profiteers, 1894. by Robert
Wohlforth. Nation. 138:299-30l
March IA, 1894.
"In an economic and social order In
which all industry and raw materials
were owned by the government the
armament business might perhaps be
successfully controlled"