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Undaunted, Gadfly Stokes offered himself as a Labor candidate for the House of Commons in his traditionally Conservative district, talked persuasively about how Britain could rearm not only on a "no profit and no loss" basis, but even without incurring any further interest-bearing public debt, for the Government, explained...
Laborite last year, Mr. Stokes maintains that the whole British armament program is shot through with profiteering.
Three years ago Mr. Stokes, who is Managing Director of the excavating equipment makers, Ransomes & Rapier Ltd., declared: "The manufacture of shells for profit is revolting!" He offered to start making shells on a basis of "no profit and no loss" and shareholders of Ransomes & Rapier voted unanimous approval, but...
The greatest living British philanthropist and one of the Empire's greatest armorers is William Richard Morris, Viscount Nuffield. Not quite bold enough to attack Lord Nuffield directly as a profiteer, Laborite Stokes made allegations in the House of Commons about two firms, which he called "A" and "B...
"Firm A" offered to supply mountings for Bofors anti-aircraft guns (a Nuffield specialty made under leased Swedish patents) for ?220 each ($880), according to Mr. Stokes, while the bid of "Firm B" on the same mountings was ?72 ($288).