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...governments in this regard -- to point out that when death is left unhampered as an enterprise for the individual initiative of gangsters the cost of a single killing seldom exceeds $100. The reason for the silence of these Big Business Men is quite simple: the killing is their business. Armaments are their stock in trade; governments are their customers; the ultimate consumers of their products are, historically, almost as often their compatriots as their enemies. That does not matter. The important point is that every time a burst shell fragment finds its way into the brain, the heart...
There is nothing that could, in any strict accuracy, be called an "Armament Ring" in Europe today. There is no perfectly homologous group of single-purposed individuals that sits down before a polished table in a sound-proof room and plots new holocausts in Europe. Search through the armament makers as you will, you will find neither a Machiavelli nor a Dr. Fu Manchu. But that's all you won't find...
...without a shadow of doubt there is at the moment in Europe a huge and subversive force that Mes behind the arming and counter-arming of nations; there are mines, smelters, armament works, holding companies, and banks, entangled in an international embrace, yet working inevitably for the destruction of such little internationalism as the world has achieved so far. The control of these myriad companies vests, finally, in not more than a handful of men whose power, in some ways, reaches above the power of the State itself. Thus, French interests not only sold arms to Hungary in flat violation...
Authors Engelbrecht & Hanighen write with deliberate caution, ring in no rhetoric, rely on the weight of their documented evidence. Author Seldes' barrage of accusations covers more ground but cumbers his case in a mass of minor allegations. After listening to their double indictment of the international armament ring, the jury of readers will need little deliberation before bringing in a verdict of guilty...
...arms industry, say Attorneys Engelbrecht & Hanighen, is comparatively innocent. Biggest U. S. ammunition maker is Du Pont, whose business is so diversified that only 2% of it in the last two years has been military products. "There is no single armament company in the U. S. comparable to the Schneider group in France or Vickers-Armstrong in England." As far as deliberately fomenting breaches of the peace is concerned, U. S. arms makers might echo Bannerman & Sons' conscious innocence: "No firearms are ever sold in our store to any minor. We will not sell weapons to anyone...