The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1934-09-12
Fight Aided
On SOviets
In China
u. S. Arms Men Gave
Military Aid Against
Red Armies
BY Marguerite Young
DAILY Worker Washington Bureau)

WASHINGTON, D. c., Sept. IL
Out of the Pandora's box that the
Senate Arms Inquiry has turned out
to be, came evidence, today, that
American munitions men wined and
dined a Canton General visiting the
United States presumably in search
of weapons to use against the Chi
nese Workers and Peasants Soviets;
that the American manufacturers
violated American neutrality in the
Chaco. and that they wished" for
3 Chinese order involving what
even they considered questionable
ethics"
The main emphasis was upon d.
rect bribing of Latin American Gov
eminent officials by the firm of
Curtiss- Wright Export Corp. In this
connection the testimony showed
that a Mexican general now sta
toned at his Embassy here always
wants to be taken care Of"
Witnesses testified, too, that they
found American ministers and Com
merce Department representatives
extremely "helpful" in these mat
tiers concerning the sale and pur-
chase of arms and munitions to
foreign countries.
This direct proof that imperialist
governments are mere errand-boyS
to the business kings of munitions
and other industries was CLOSED
over by the Nye-Vandenberg Com
mittee.
Silent wistful, doing little to de-
velop the facts-much less the con-
illusions workers will draw from
them - the Senators irresistibly
called up the thought Of poor little
Pandora, wishing she hadn't opened
that box.
No 'inquisitor" asked the big bad
munitions men how many workers
their governments had sent to the
slaughter for profits in the wars re-
Ierred to in the testimony.
Particularly, no Senator connected
the munitions mems activities with
the present Roosevelt policies
something the call for the Second
American Congress Against War
and Fascism declares policies
whose only logical result is war"
The irony is that liberal pacifists,
who succeed in selling the Roose-
velt supporters the idea that it
would be a good stunt to investi-
gate munitions, now find their own
position toward war exposed in
their own investigation.
This happened dramatically today
when Amelia Earhart and Ruth
Nichols, famous pilots whose liberal
pacifisin is constantly being touted,
telegraphed the Senate Committee
that they were shocked to find
their own names in the evidence.
The Misses Earhart and Nichols
were named yesterday by ]. Mi
randa munitions manufacturer, who
said he was intimately acquainted"
with them and had found them
most useful in the pursuit of bust
nesse-the business, that is, of SELL
ing war machinery.
Today Miss Nichols protested
against this Sin the interest of peace
in which I am so deeply interested"
and Miss Earhart asserted she is
"emphatically opposed to all that
has to do with war and the activ-
tiles of the munitions makers"
However, neither flyer denied the
specific statement that Miranda
made-that both fly his planes and
are always willing to tell anyone
how good they are" 1t is common
knowledge that such flyers regular
ly receive pay in the form of price
reductions, etc, in return for en-
dorsing planes.
Miranda implied that both girl
flyers were willing to give these in
dorsements to munitions buyers.
They did not deny this.
Chairman Nye, of the investigat-
ing committee, said today that the
munitions trade just seems to be
a racket that can't be controlled"
since neutrality laws and embargoes
"nean nothing at all to these men
who profit by the sale of war i'm
plements."
It would seem that the Senator
hadn't heard of the Soviet Unions
proposal for total disarmament. nor
Of the revolutionary anti-war strug-
gle to stop munitions shipments at
the piers, and SO on.