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No. 2,797
PERTH, SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1933
Vol. LIX.
The Cancer of the Armament Trade --And the Part Played by the Banks There are many queer trades, but surely the queere a. is the one which in:iterial purpose the has for its air. . .-!ierabowelling. blindkilling, maiir ing poisoning .t).cl choking of young men, writes :ao.aer F. H. Drinkwater, in the "Catholic Times." •-' . a we ought to say Though. women an HO' lien instead of young men, since Mr. 1aldwin warns us that I a save ou:- :•OVC.,-; in the next war we fll more women and shall have children quioalo than the enemy." ' I am not a poa ifist. A just war of .a'ence is ta-a against God's Cornaandmenta taa•:gh I do not see how can be re • nciled with the Christian ansels (snap- ing any nation desired to live them), unless in the case of at•a• av cruel and murderous invader, , ut simply to destroy. There is lee I • •a, be put down on the credit side 4- a t-'s .balance-sheet. but that does e hange tha main facts which is tl-a • •• acite.r scientific v.-arfare has becor' • mankind at large, a I suicidal jp • "A Mug's Game!" 'A ---- elaa•e game! '' I heard a weary stretae, - -hearer say, as he threw himself de-a 71 ci a few moments' rest about dusk an ;uly 1st., 1916. In the wide social ,•.e his .words were abso. •.:tely ri,;;Io. Another little war or two, with 7 he latest inventions o: j the slaugaaa-seecialists. and our civilisation, with all its hope •: and plans, will soon eta agh be one with Nineveh and Tyre. Disarmament would not strip wars,
though it would lessen their destructcountries; so that in the next war our tries: loans by French banks, guaranmen will probably be killed by shells teed by the French Government, to iveness at the beginning and give more chance to second thoughts. In any actually being made in England now. buy French armaments. case whatever arms a Government It is nrala notable in France that the On the board of directors of Vickers needs it can reasonably be left to annameritandustry has bought over the and Vickers-Armstrong, there are 15 manufacture for itself. As fer the newspapers and is able to influence directors who hold between them 127 private armament-industry, 'it is an public opinion by scares and rumours directorships. The Bank of England international chain-store whose head- of war. is represented by one of its most imquarters arc in Hell. American armament-firms have ad- portant figures, who is connected with t wo other banks also. The chairman The great combines—Vick :Ts of Bri- mitted paying 25,000 dollars to an "obof Vickers • is also chairman of the tain, Schneider-Creusut of France, Sko- server" who did "publicity work" for Anglo-International Bank and director da of Czecho-Slovakia, Bethlehem Steel them at the Geneva Naval Conference ( what a name to choose!) of U.S.A., in 1927; his efforts there seem to have or partner in the banking-firm of Glyn, Mitsui of Japan, Krupp of Germany-- been to prevent arms-limitation, to Mills and Co., in the Bank of Rumania, Ltd.. and the London Commitare forging again those numerous links spread anti-British propaganda, to distee of the Ottoman Bank, as well as in and inter-connections which in pre-war credit peace-advocates. and so on. t wo great insurance companies, another days made them and their predecesThe Banks' Part in the Piece. ot two, another of the Securities Mansors into one great ring for the ExTo-4day, then, as always, the arma- agement Trust, and so on. ploiting of men's worst passions. Names and particulars will be -found It is the business of their inventors ment-industry thrives on national susto think out ever more frightful and picions and hatreds. It is like a huge in a book recently published by Mr. Fenner Brockway. "The Bloody Trafefficient engines of destruction, while malignant growth in the suffering body of humanity. fic," which also gives a long string of their salesmen see to it that every And now to the chief point. The similar facts relating to banking concountry shall feel obliged to adopt armament-industry, like any other in- nections of Schneider-Creusot. them. (lustre, depends for its success and exRestrain or be Destroyed. Supplies For Enemy Countries. pansion upon the favour of "those who If the power of credit-creation were The armament-firms claim to be do- are able to control credit and detertaken out of private hands and operating a necessary work of patriotism. mine its allotment." ed ho a decent Government, it could Banks and bankers probably have be used for the common good, to abolBut they supply all-corners, including the likely enemies of their own coun- direct holdings ill armament-firms, ish the slums, and so on, instead of try, and to make sure of doing so though information about this is not feeding this appalling cancer of the But banks can be more armament trade. they have their branches and subsi- available. diary companies in as many other coun- useful to the armament-industry in The "few men" who, according to other ways, by providing the credit. the Pope. exercise an irresistible finantries as possible. Last year one English firm was ad- backing for its developments, and more cial domination in the modern world vertising its field-guns in a military especially by providing its customers, are lunatics quite capable of destroying the Governments, large and small, with mankind in their blind greed of money journal in Germany. This year another English firm announced a much-im- loans to make their purchases. France, and power. unless mankind can find proved type of armous-piercing shell especially, has used this method of some way of putting them under rewhich they have patented in eight gaining power over the small coma- straint.
Roosevelt Declares His Faith in God The main object of the Conference A taunt made by French atheists to Frederic Ozanam and his comspiritual values count in the long run as to co-ordinate national and State panions. and the answer that the Society of St. Vincent de Paul has more than material values. aconstruction programmes with orbeen giving to that taunt for 100 years, were the basis of a remark"Those people in ()filer lands—and I •anised catholic relief actiivties. say this advisedly—those in other able speech by President Roosevelt at the four-day National Conference President Roosevelt, in his speech to of Catholic Charities held in the huge Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York. lands who have sought by edict to eli. `alut 3,000 people at the banquet minate the right of mankind to believe President Roosevelt was accompanied at the conference by mem-, -';hich closed the conference, said: in God and to practise that belief, have also were Cardinal Cabinet. Hayes. Present Archbishop of his hers of : It is fi tting that this annual nain every know a case discovered, sooner New York, Archbishop Cicognani, Apostolic Delegate to the United tional conference of Catholic charities or later, that they are tilting in vain other Archbishops more than 40 and and Bishops. States, The disshould celebrate also the centenary of against an inherent, essential, undying delegates of by nearly 500 Catholic societies and eussions were attended the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. quality, indeed a necessity, of the their guests from all parts of the States. ' With every passing year I become human race—a quality and a necessity Fiore confident that humanity is movwhich in every century have prove71 his speech. President Roosevelt said: "Those people in other I n . an essential to permanent progress. 't ing forward to the practical application :ands . . . who have sought by edict or by law to eliminate the right of of the teachings of Christianity as they "Not for a moment have I doul-aol mankind to believe in God and to practise that belief, have in every affect the individual lives of men and that we would climb out of the v•illey known case discovered sooner or later that they are tilting in vain against women. of gloom. Always have I been est tamn an inherent, essential, undying quality, indeed a necessity, of the human "I like to taunt of that we would conquer, because the race—a quality and a necessity which in every century have proved atheists and remember the Christian enemies of the spirit of America springs from faith.— an essential to permanent progress." religion in the Paris of 1833, when they faith in the beloved institutions of our demanded of the Churches: Show us lief that God is marching on. . . . construction of banking, development land, and a true abiding faith in the Your works.' I like of public works, the lifting of crushing divine guidance of God." "Leadership I have tried to give, but to think of the lec,Ptilnce of that challenge and the debt—all these in every part of the the 'great and most important fact has (acision to show Cardinal Hayes declared that the that Christianity was been the response—the wholehearted nation call for a willingness to sacrifice not dead, and that We have re- individual gains, to work together for country must be reconstructed on a the deeds of Chris- response—of ,America. tians were in accordance with their captured and rekindled our pioneering the public welfare, and for the success mac: basis, since the older order was Paitb. of a broad national programme of re- "built upon a foundation of selfishness. We have insisted that this spirit. , "When I realise that this one society. shall always be a spirit of justice, a unrestricted competition, and a cravcovery. . . . ast year, in ing for economic power" of team work, a spirit of sacrirelief of the their task of visitation and spirit "Government can do many things "Our able-bodied citizens," His Emipoor in their own homes. fice, and, above all, a spirit of neigh- better than private associations or citi- nence said, 'should be assured of a ,1n, hospitals and institutions, aided more bourliness. zens, but in the last analysis success in family wage, decent hours, safe work'flan 150.000 families: and that other personal matters depends on the per- ing conditions, and steady work. Sc Spiritual Values Paramount. great organisations of men and won' er Fonnected with all sonal contact between neighbour and ere can assert that they are beyond "We have sought to adjust the prothe Churches in all . the lands are working with similar un- cesses of industrial and, agricultural life, neighbour. the resources of the land, if properly selfishness for the alleviation of human and' in so doing we have sought to view The people of the United States still managed. The days that face us are 'vliffering, and the righting of human the picture as a whole. Revival of in- recognise. and. I believe, recognise with days of uncertainty, of change but, T ong, I am confirmed in my deep be• dustry, redemption of agriculture, re- firmer faith than ever before, that nevertheless days of hope" -00-•10.--4,4r-
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