The Daily Alaska empire., 1936-02-04
By WILLIAM 6. WHITE

WASHINGTON. Feb. A. Source of hundred sensations as to the world wide secret activities of the war gun merchants, the Senate Munitions Committee has returned to it's job determined this time to turn up the story of American World War loans
 In the backwash of the commit tees astonishing disclosures, Con- gress passed in 1885 temporary neutrality laws that were the broad est the country ever has known. Now, the investigators again be- come the means of dramatizing the views of those who want rigid neutrality and control of the muni- tions industry.
 Already an inquiry has been made as to how much it would cost the Government to manufac- ture it's own guns and bombs and ships; a drive for a Government monopoly on the implements of war appears in the offing.
 Tale of International Intrigue
 The committee in its last session heard story of international in trigue. of alleged graft and bribery reaching from Central America to China. Some of the testimony pro- voked diplomatic representatives from abroad; no less majestic a figure than King George of Eng land was pictured once before the committee substantially as an arms salesman for British interests-com- peting at one time against officers of the army and navy of the United States.
 The inquiry brought forth secrets long guarded, and at one time com mittee investigators charged cer- tain Government departments with blocking them by withholding ma terial information.
 A great deal of what was told the inquiry subsequently, was denied by the principals involved; munitions manufacturers struck out sharply against Government manufacture of war weapons on the ground it could not be as efficient as private operations
 Advocate Large Armies
 Chairman Nye of the committee reached the belief, he said, that some American munitions interests were cooperating with foreign com panies to increase their profits through advocating large armies and navies. Among the many accu- sations put forward, either through witnesses, matter dug up by com mittee investigators, or upon the statements of Senators were these:
 That son of the late French
 Premier Clemenceau was list
 ed as former agent in Europe
 of an English munitions firm.
 That Sir Basil Zaharoff, 'mys- tery man" of Europe, got com-
 missions from an American con-
 cern which had agreed with a
 British company to split the
 worlds submarine building busi-
 ness.
 That World War German U-
 boats were built on an Ameri-
 can-owned patent. That a sub
 marine salesman seriously at-
 tempted to attend the 1925 dis
 armament conference as a dele
 gate.
 That an American Ambassa-
 dor and other high Govern
 ment officials in 1922 helped
 an American submarine con-
 pany to sell it's wares in South
 America. That one company
 was successful in fomenting na-
 tional animosities to sell muni-
 tions.
 That ian American naval
 cruiser was sent abroad as
 show case to help a private
 firm sell its boats. That the
 United States war and navy de-
 partments were at one time
 cooperating fully" in. helping
 an American munitions con-
 cern build up foreign business.
 That arms manufacturers
 knew as early as 1908 six
 years before the World War-a
 great conflict was brewing.