Munitions Industry, Vol. 1 (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Munitions Industry, Vol. 1: Hearing Before the Special Committee Investigating the Munitions Industry United States Senate Seventy-Third Congress Pursuant to S. Res; 206 a Resolution to Make Certain the Other War MunitionsThe committee met, pursuant to call, at 10 a.m., in the caucus room, Senate Office Building, Senator Gerald P. Nye presiding.Present: Senators Nye (chairman), George, Clark, Bone, Pope, and Barbour.Also present: Stephen Raushenbush, secretary, and Robert Wohlforth, assistant to chief investigator.The Chairman. The committee will be in order.This committee, a select committee of the Senate, is met in compliance with and in consideration of Senate Resolution 206, which the Chair asks to have made a part of the record at this point in the proceedings.(S.Res. 206 is as follows:)[S.Res. 206, 73d Cong., 2d sess.]Whereas the influence of the commercial motive is an inevitable factor in considerations involving the maintenance of the national defense; andWhereas the influence of the commercial motive is one of the inevitable factors often believed to stimulate and sustain wars; andWhereas the Seventy-first Congress, by Public Resolution No. 98. approved June 27, 1930, responding to the long-standing demands of American war veterans speaking through the American Legion for legislation "to take the profit out of war", created a War Policies Commission which reported recommendations on December 7, 1931, and on March 7, 1932, to decommercialize war and to equalize the burdens thereof; andWhereas these recommendations never have been translated into the statutes: Therefore be itResolved, That a special committee of the Senate shall be appointed by the Vice President to consist of seven Senators, and that said committee be, and is hereby, authorized and directed -(a) To investigate the activities of individuals, firms, associations, and of corporations and all other agencies in the United States engaged in the manufacture, sale, distribution, import, or export of arms, munitions, or other implements of war; the nature of the industrial and commercial organizations engaged in the manufacture of or traffic in arms, munitions, or other implements of war; the methods used in promoting or effecting the sale of arms, munitions, or other implements of war; the quantities of arms, munitions, or other implements of war imported into the United States and the countries of origin thereof, and the quantities exported from the United States and the countries of destination thereof; and(b) To investigate and report upon the adequacy or inadequacy of existing legislation, and of the treaties to which the United States is a party, for the regulation and control of the manufacture of and traffic in arms, munitions, or other implements of war within the United States, and of the traffic therein between the United States and other countries; andAbout the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.