| : ‘month, That ¢his was uo exaggeration is clear from a Tet ‘writen by one of the Pratt & Whitney officials on October 27, 1995, in which he enviaged the possibility of Germany mami facturing 700 to Goo engines a year on the company’s licence ‘alone At the same time another American company—Sperr Gyroscope—was exporting to Germany enough automatic poss, ‘gyro-compasss and other instruments to equip at leas fifty panes month. British airplane companies were justas actives and inthe Foouse ffGommons on May 14, t934, Sit John Simon adrnitted that ftder from a German ‘rm for eighty aero-engines had bee placed with the Armstrong-Siddcley Co.* The Yeeach Ambas. Sedor ad complained about it, but Sir Jon (“Hands off Tapas”) Simon went on to explain that “ihe export of these fenines does not eonilice with the terms of the zelevant inter. ational instniments”, Later in the year Mr. Stanley Baldwin ‘admitted, in answer to & Parliamentary question, that a / German order had Been placed with another British compar ‘Asked whether the Goternment proposed io take any acto: fn the matter, Mr. Uskiwin replied: “The answer is in ti ‘By this time armaments and vital war materials were pouring nto Germany in a never-easing food, The National Ship- builders” Securities organization (the murderers of Jarrow) sold 14900,000 tons of machinery to the Nazi industrialists nt serap pices and British financiers lent Germany the money with which to buy it. De Havilland Airerafe Company was slling Tiger ‘Moth planes (for naval and military training) to Germany. and Japan Vickers was inserting full-page advertisements of feid- guns and tanks in German military journals—advertsements ‘whieh, according to the Company's chairman, Sic Herbert Lawrence, were inserted “with the complete sunction and iran cs. ogee te ore ces Peers ek on fades ee approval of the British Government".* I.C.1. was collaborating th the feiendlestof term with the great German chemical eome Dides|on which the entice Nazi war effort was dependent, ‘Tum MoGowas: Peay ‘The two last-mentioned companies deserve a chapter to theme selves, bit we must be content with some of the more striking evidence of the asistance which they rendered to Hitler, Some interesting comments on Vickers are made in U.S. Ambassador Doda’s published diary of his tenure of office in Berlin. Here are Sic Erie Phipps and repeated in Ocivtert9, 1934. “1 vi all eoniderce a report that Armstrong-Vickers, the great Britsh armaiment concern, had negotiated a sale of war material here (Belin) lat weck, just before the British Govern ent Commision arrived to negotiate with Schacht for pay= rent of 35,000,000 due on current deliveries of British eotton yam from Manchester. Te is impossible, Schacht said to me Yesterday, to pay the British debts. Yet last Friday, T'eported { Sir Eric, the Brith arms people were selling for cash enormous quantities of war supplies, And I was nk enough— fr indiscreet enough to add that T understood that representax tives of Curtis: Weight from the United States were here this ‘week to nagotiate similar sales, ‘The British Ambassador pre- tended to be surprised... .”2 1 John Hargrave, Per Stn, alias Mage Nery. 230. +Join Haters, (Sat ltows lee interesting Het on the Nar exh psyora or Heo armament For examples "In Sta op4 a private coneence ook pace between De Seba nd CGonctNoti Bin cane te ane ceorav’ at Bader tte Sore Fine when Soran agin me De Sea ‘Busted inert ona Setements asec. Nev Germany neni nbiglose Eni ney te tot na hen ng fle Sea Ae oe cries ir aR Seocten Gone ‘Neca spate of the poll gitadon ie Exrope pew Power bad ele! oats gee sine