DEATH PAYS A DIVIDEND'
Press, Worldover
Death Pays A Dividend' By Worldover Press Hitler did not conflict with the "relevant international in- struments." According to these writers, the National Ship- builders' Securities...
...The strike was broken by the authorities and the goods shipped...
...2) the establishment of an international authority with a court of arbitration and an international police force...
...In 1941, the Broken Hill Proprietary Company of Australia (British-owned) was still exporting pig-iron and steel to Japan...
...4) an international economic board running the world air service and coordinating world resources with world needs...
...In December, 1940, a British firm in the north of England was still exporting essential parts of tanks to the Japanese Army...
...Death Pays A Dividend' By Worldover Press Hitler did not conflict with the "relevant international instruments...
...As "the next step in overcoming the merchants of death," the authors urge: d) the nationalization of armaments...
...According to these writers, the National Shipbuilders' Securities (incorporating the leading British shipbuilding companies) sold 1,500,000 tons of machinery to the Nazi industrialists at scrap prices, and British financiers lent Germany the money with which to buy it...
...The respective figures for British armament exports to Japan and China in 1932 were: Japan, 230,000 pounds, China 7,300 pounds...
...While the DeHaviland Aircraft Company was selling Germany Tiger Moss planes for naval and military training, the Vickers firm inserted full-page advertisements of field-guns and tanks in German military journals, with "the complete sanction and approval of the British Government," according to Sir Herbert Lawrence, the company's chairman...
...3) supervision and inspection by this authority of arms production in all countries...
...In August, 1939, right on the brink of war, Germany bought over 10.000 tons of copper in London, sending up the price from 35 pounds, 18 shillings, ninepence to 44 pounds, 18 shillings, ninepence a ton...
...The dockers at Port Kembla, New South Wales, struck against loading ships with these articles...
...The workers on the night shift at this firm refused to do the work, and finally the Government announced that the shipment of these war materials to Japan would be stopped...
...Exports To Japan During 1932, the year following Japan's attack on Manchuria, the British Board of Trade issued li- censes for the following exports to Japan from British firms: 5,361,450 cartridges, 10 howitzers or mortars, 740 machine guns, and 160.000 pounds' worth of old military equipment...
Vol. 8 • December 1944 • No. 52