POSITION OF VICKERS
ILL-INFORMED CRITICS
NO PART IN POLITICS
(British Official Wireless.) (Received March 27, 11 a.m.) RUGBY, March 26. When presiding today over the annual meeting of Viekers Limited Sir Herbert Lawrence said that so far as Vickers were concerned the inflated profits of privato armaments firms existed only in tho imagination of ill-informed critics. Having regard to certain Press statements, he took occasion to emphasise that no company of the Vickers group -was a member of any international armament ring. He added that in Britain, and in Britain alone, the export of armaments was forbidden, except with the approval of the Government. Control of private armaments manuafetured in Britain was far more potent than was generally believed to be tho case. Companies in the Vickers group took no part in politics either in Britain or abroad,, and neither directly nor indirectly had they any control over or influence with any British or foreign newspapers. Referring, to industrial conditions generally Sir Herbert said that definite progress had been made in Britain towards trade recovery, and there seemed every prospect of this continuing. As ■for international trado there was a hope that the artificial restrictions upon it .would be removed as saner counsels prevailed. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 9
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204POSITION OF VICKERS Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 73, 27 March 1934, Page 9
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