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CARSE: I believe there was some settlement made. Sheridan handled it.....
Zaharoff was never a stockholder insofar as I ever knew. The men who
handle very large stock do not put the stock in their own names.
CHMN: Zaharoff wrote to you 19 May, 1925: 'I desire no thanks for what I
have done, because I am bound to attend to the interest of my firm of Vickers
and the Electric Boat Co. in both of which I am a stockholder.'
CARSE: I know he told me that, but I was never able to trace anything."
Sen. Clark then pursued questioning on how the
armaments firms and oil companies promoted wars:
CLARK: So this whole occasion of arming Peru, and of the revolution in
Bolivia on the basis of arming against Chile was based on erroneous rumor ?
MR. SPEZAR: That is my impression.
CLARK: You wanted to interest the large oil companies in financing an
armament program for South America
CARSE: I was willing to present any proposition the government might
approve with regard to any oil companies which might be interested.
The Nye Committee frequently came back to Zaharoff's
activities, referring to him as "a kind of superspy in high
social and influential circles". For many years he
exercised great influence on Prime Minister Lloyd
George of England. Zaharoff, who began his career as a
brothel tout and underworld tough, arranged for Lloyd
George to have an affair with Zaharoff's wife.
Arthur Maundy Gregory, an associate of Lloyd George,
was also a Zaharoff agent. Maundy Gregory for many
years regularly peddled peerages in London clubs;
knighthoods, not hereditary, were 10,000-12,000 lbs.;