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...political figures of national prominence will air their views on the perennial problems of world peace and national security when Senator Gerald P. Nye of North Dakota speaks with Norman Thomas, prominent Socialist leader, in a joint program on Thursday evening...
Before the resolution came up in the Senate next day, peace-lovers, led by Senators Nye, Clark and Costigan, announced they would propose a series of amendments. Three amendments were offered, defeated. Senator Nye flew from Cleveland to Washington to argue for permanent neutrality legislation but arrived only in time to see the temporary act swiftly passed without a record vote...
...postulated my stand for a strong, mandatory neutrality bill. The lamp of experience burns so brightly in his hands that we are convinced by his recitation of the record. That record can lead to only one conclusion, and that conclusion is what we tried to put into the Clark-Nye neutrality bills...
...which Partners Thomas Lamont and Russell Leffingwell gave tedious testimony about financing after the U. S. entered the War. Finally Mr. Morgan expressed his disappointment. "I guess we are in for another dull day." Before catching a midday train back to ' Manhattan he shook hands with Senator Nye and his fellow investigators...
Last month North Dakota's young Gerald P. Nye, chairman of the Senate Munitions Investigation Committee, asserted with an air of discovery that President Woodrow Wilson in 1919 had "falsified" to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee about his knowledge of Allied secret treaties. Senate oldsters led by Texas' Connally and Virginia's Glass forthwith passionately gave the lie back to Senator Nye, excoriated him as a monstrous despoiler of honored graves. Discovering that the Nye committee was almost out of funds, they promised to oppose granting it another dollar (TIME, Jan. 27). When the Senate sound & fury...