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O man in Europe bas given closer study than Mr. Noel-Baker to the unsavoury subject of the private manufacture of
armaments.
In this book he frames the most damning indielment of the artnament interests that has ever been printed. It is all the more telling because it is so temper- lately stated. But it bristles with pointed facts as deadly as the weapons on which the industry of war so profitably thrives.
It appears at a moment when These interests are sitting pretty,
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with prosperity and pride and when Mr. Neville Chamberlain's pacans of joy on the recovery of Stubbs Rd. British trade sound like an ironic prelude to the thunder of the guns.
I defy any honest person tu read Mr. Noel-Baker's detailed account of the part played by the CASTILJO.---On 20th November, armament interests in the causes
1936, at 2,05 m. Gertrude which led to the laat war without, Anacleta Castilho,
19 aged years, beloved daughter of Mr. admitting its sinister relevance to and Mrs. A. B. Castilho of 21 the situation to-day.. Kwong Ming Street, Funeral will pass the Monument at 5.30 p.m. to-day. (Monila and Shang- hai papers please copy)..
The
The publishers would do a use- fal service if they were to present a copy of the book to every mem- ber of the British Commission which has been pursuing # leisurely inquiry, as if it had all
Royal Commission of inquiry into the private manufacture of arms held its
Hongkong Telegraph. eternity in which to complete its arst public meeting May 1, 1935.
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1930.
to
ask; and, in particular, a frce copy. with marked passagea, might be addressed to Sir Maurice Hankey, the Government's own lyrically enthusiastic advocate of the superior claims of the mer- chants of death.
After 18 months and 23 public and many private meetings it has completed its report, which may be published at the end of the month.
Picture shows first session. Left to right: Professor Guttridge, Sir Thomas Allen, Sir Philip Gibbs, Sir John Eldon Bankes (chairman), Dame Rachel Crowdy, Sir Kenneth Lee, Mr. J. A. Spender. building our Dreadnought pro-
crease was prapased.
But Mr. Mulliner won. The nation was in a panic. The very existence of the Liberal Rather than split and founder Government was at stake. in disunion the Cabinet gave way; and Mr. Mulliner's' firms,
By-
A. J. Cummings
were false.
The Foreign Secretary accept-
of Mr. Mulliner and his friends Own A moderate Dreadnought in- I were proved by subsequent events
V I A
seems hardly worth the
to be completely false. As Mr. Churchill afterwards aaid: "There were no secret German Dread-
no acceleration of any kind. noughts," And there had been
But the fear aroused both in Britain and in Germany by this high-pressure propaganda in Parliament and in the Press was a potent factor in convincing each of the two peoples that the other was determined to make aggres- sive war.
The resentment (in Mr. Nod- Baker's words) which Mr. Mul- liner's unfounded propaganda aroused in Germany "did much to help Von Tirpitz, in his struggle with Chancellor Bothmann, to win the Kaiser to his alde (sco the Kaiser's marginal notes] and thus defeat the last hopeful efforts to avert the war.”
Every word of this story is
as entertaining and as repulsive as a shilling shockor. Read it and mark it well.
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Read all the other stories of the barefaced manoeuvres of the death-profiteers,
Read their pious views on war as an upholder.or necessity of an enlightened civilisation.
Read their evidence before
Commissioners.
POOR BUT LOYAL "This Town is Poor But Loyal!" No-one can have read of
Mr. Noel-Baker gives example gramme.
Mr. Mulliner, whose perti- the displaying of this notice by after example, documented with the inhabitants of one of the fastidious care and expressed in nacity and skill were worthy of blackest spots in the depressed language of cold simplicity, of the 3 purer cause, at last got the Mr. Churchill and Mr. Lloyd South Wales arca, on the occasion way in which, in the ten years Admiralty on to his side.
preceding the last war, armament of the visit of the King, without interests all the world over start. George were convinced that Mr. being moved
a sense of led scares in order to increase their admiration of the spirit which it trade and brought to the task of apprehension" large reflects. Here we have a dis- "sowing trict which has been haunted by funds and a greal machinery of
propaganda. the spectre of unemployment for
He shows by chapter and years, in which the people have suffered untold hardships through verse how they lost no chance to no fault of their own. Yet they create misunderstanding and to can, for a moment, forget their embitter feeling; how to this end plight, and, with a bright cour-they solicited orders, bribed Min- age, doubtless tinged with hopeisters, legislators and officials and Mulilner's information and the together with the whole arma that their monarch will use his built up a powerful influence Admiralty's computation of Ger- ment industry, reaped a rich influence on their behalf, join so within the civil services, the war many's Dreadnought programme reward. cloquently in the wonderful wel-departments and the armed forces come which King Edward has re- of the various States.
To this end the armamenteera ed Germany's official assurances The assertions and predictions ceived during his tour of the dis- tressed regions. It is clear, from sold arms to potential enemies, on the point. a reading of the messages to thereby compelling their hand, that His Majesty's tour was Governments to increase their in no sense a perfunctory one.orders in reply; they controlled He mixed freely with his subjects, and debased the Press; they sub- went into their homes, and dis-sidised "patriotic" societies to de- cussed at first-hand the hardships mand greater expenditure on the which they are suffering. Even defence forces: they played one his scheduled time-table was Government off against another. ignored, so dotermined was he to Thus they not only helped to
But above all, read Senator gain a close personal knowledge stimulate the competition in MANY a child gets a first dose of The problem presents itself differ of the conditions under which the armaments, to which, as Lord Latin from wondering what that ently when the end, though clearly unemployed are subsisting. This Grey once said, lay the "true and queer word via means on the luggage in view,
label. It can hardly be the name trouble of a careful choice of means. Nyc's letter from an American is typical of the man whom the final account of the origin of the of a place. The label already dis- Thai problem calls for solution in commercial traveller in arms who nation is proud to have as their war," but they helped also no less plays enough recognizable place each individual life. There begin in a conscience-stricken moment King. It is not too much to hope cunningly to create the defeatist names to account for departure and ning and end are the same for all thus described his trade: "We are
destination. A knowledgeable elder of us. Each one of us must make that what His Majesty has seen, certainty that war was coming.
is appealed to, and a a lingual acquain-the journey from the cradle to the certainly in one hell of a business, and the knowledge he has gained,
tance is begun which may in time grave. But, to an embarrassing de- where a fellow has to wish for will be conveyed to his Ministers,
fade out in boredom and distaste, or gree of responsibility, what shall lle trouble so as to make a living."
Then decide, if you can, that In all these stories of the ex- and that some special effort may
may more rarely and more happily between is left in our own hands. lead to enduring appreciation and The lines may seem to be laid down there is no sufficient reason, on be made to lighten the lot of these ploits of the armamenteers none
affection. The convenient word 18 for us with some rigidity. Occupa clementary moral grounds, for courageous people. It is an un-fascinates me more than the case round useful in more than its plain tion may be predetermined by birth abolishing forthwith the private happy. circumstance that South of the famous Mr. Mulliner. The
geographical sense. "Back to school or by the decision of others. There
Is no railway direction, but
Inay have been practicable alter manufacture of arms, Wales has not shared in the gen- loag recital of the speeches, letters via eral revival of industry in the Old and statistics of Mr. Mulliner's the invitation of one of those versatile native to becoming an artisan, a
In a second volumo Mr. Noel- Country. The causes of the de intervention is an epitome of the emporia which aim at supplying all teacher, a lawyer, or an engineer.
the accessaries and all the consola- But it still rests with the man hit Baker will deal with the argument pression in this area are complex, whole beastly business.
tions enlculated to smooth the path sell whether within the course but, whatever they are, it is im Mr. Mulliner was the manag- of holiday-expired child and anxious down he is an eager and worthy that there is a technical advan- parent. Via is indeed a shorthand worker of his kind. He has more tage in keeping the manufacture perative that something be doneling director of the Coventry expression of the truth that, even latitude, and to that extent still more of arms for national defence in to alleviate the miseries and Ordnance Works; and from 1906 when beginning and end are clearly responsibility, in the family and private hands. I believe the an sulferings of a people who have to 1909 his company and others defined, there is still importance in social relations of private life. endured their hardships with with which his own was linked the choice of passage from one to too, though the general courte may swer to be complete, and fortified amazing patience and restraint. were in difficulties because they the other. It is not enough, for in- be already fixed by a combination by the experiences of the last
stance, that there should be a happy of choles and circumstance, he is war, In the best of times, their calling had not received from the Admir-home and an attractive holiday resort, still answerable for mean's
But, like millions of others, I is arduous and attended by daily ally the rders for which they had These terminals; excellent as they method. It is temptation, since the
of the individual life am prepared to take my stand by dangers, with rewarda which hoped.
may be in themselves, must be linked visible end by a journey which may be pleasant seems to be mere cessation, to assume the declaration of a recent Con- have never been wholly commen-
In 1906 Mr. Mulliner trans- or detestable, according to the route that the way chosen to the inevitable greas of Frenchmen of all political surate with the risks they run. In the depression, their life has mitted to the Admiralty certain taken and the pains expended on end can be of no great moment, and partlea: preparing
ring for it "information" which, he had
that a man may as well follow bis been drab and dreary: yet they have always hoped for better gathered in Germany, about the This brief Latinism summarizen the desire without being hampered by facet of the world-old rela- intangible moralities. The truth in times. They still hope and that increase in plant for armament Tonship between ends and recans, rather that the way of human life is the spirit in which they have manufacore by Krupps. This Adam and Eve sought an obvious is paradoxically both means and end. offered a kindly and touching
extremely end, but disastrously by forbidden It is the journey itself that matters. never The real aim of the mortal pilgrimage welcome to one who has ever may, supported only by a few means. Their offering are
free from the hazard of the ancestral is not that final plunge tato
but the road shown the keenest-interest in those isolated items of fact.
piltall. We are all conscious of the doubtful darkness, who want work but cannot obtain But it was seized upon by the problem. An end is ardently de- chosen, the means used, and the per- sonality evolved in struggling along seems to pro- It. Britons everywhere will pray Tory Picty and by a screaming mise the fullest satisfaction. To miss the path of life. If a sense of No. to that.
sired. To cumpats that there are brighter days Tory Prins; and a tremendous it threatens to rob everything of proportion forbids us to accept even ahead; in the sure knowledge that agitation was worked up which desirability and value. Surely any that as end sumcient in itself, fulth the King will, as far as humanly (to use one of Mr. Daff Cooper's menus likely to secure that end may in ready to descry the greater end of Armaments." By Philin Noel- be invoked. The morallsi counters to which the product of man's highest Baker, M.P. Prefatory Note by with the question whether we should effort may become a not unworthy such practical action as lies open the country out of its wits by sug- do ovil that good may come, and, contribution. The Times, London, Lord Cecil. Vol. L Gollancz
1881 gesting that Germany was out- a whole world of casulatry opens up. Sept. 11.
to him.
"'information”, was
ald
There
and
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The private profita realised by some citizens form an immoral contrast with the sacrificca exacted from others, and thus strike indirectly at the 10hole conception of national defence.
Try to induce any unemployed ex-soldier in any country to say
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