Mass Murderers, in Person.

Focuses on the hearing on issues related to interests of manufacturers and suppliers of weapons, held in the United States before the Senate committee under Senator Gerald P. Nye's chairmanship. Evidence regarding surplus weapons revealed by John Ball, head of a contracting firm that disposes of the British War Ministry's surplus weapons; Interference of weapon manufacturers in international affairs; Views expressed by several weapon producers during the hearing; Comments of Webster, a firm which supplies planes, regarding Bolivian bombing on Paraguay; Belief that industrialists might see an interest in pushing the United States into a war for their own interest; Perception of Nye for ending the danger of armament markers' forcing the U.S. into another war; Intention of the State Department behind providing weapons to China regarding the Soviet Chinese relationship.