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...theory, Secretary of State Cordell Hull became the Acting President of the U. S. under the Act of Succession of 1886.* If solemn Secretary Hull had not already realized the gravity of his trust, he must have done so upon receiving a telegram from Senator Gerald Prentice Nye, as that North Dakotan sailed away with other Congressional junketeers to the Philippines (see col. 1), concluding: "I wish you every success and great strength in these trying hours upon your office...
...Green also set out to make himself an international armament expert became such a specialist that he was chosen last year to be the State Department's liaison man with Senator Nye's munitions investigation. Long before the President's proclamation last week, he had his office running smoothly. With his assistant and fellow-Pnncetonian. Charles Woodruff Vost, a 28-year-old State Department cub, he it was who drafted the list of wartime contraband which President Roosevelt charged him with controlling. Mortars, machine guns and methyldichlorarsine are obvious munitions of war. But what about such equally...
Such a sham as the government is planning to carry out deceives no one. Senator Nye and his associates had a nobler purpose in their fight for neutrality than to enable the United States to pay lip service to peace while reaping profits from commerce with the belligerents. As it becomes increasingly clear that Europe is moving toward war the truth must be recognized that the embargo cannot go too far. Even if the moral standpoint can be disregarded, the practical one cannot. The embargo on armaments is a good beginning, nothing more. To make neutrality a fact as well...
...Senator Nye arrived later by plane from Washington, where in the last Congress he introduced no less than four neutrality resolutions and a bill to take the profits out of war. U. S. Ambassador Jefferson Caffery obligingly arranged an interview at the Presidential Palace. As everyone expected, President Mendieta politely pointed out that nothing could be done until his provisional Government was replaced by an elected one. And after the interview Senator Nye made an awkward effort to appease Cuban feeling, declaring: "We made no demands for payment nor was there any peremptory tone in our conference with Mendieta. . . . Cuba...
Then in a later interview with a New York Herald Tribune correspondent the North Dakota Senator revealed a hidden streak of old-fashioned imperialism that amazed his countrymen and embarrassed an Administration which boasts a "good neighbor" foreign policy. Senator Nye spoke frankly of intervention: "The constitutional Government replacing the Mendieta de facto Administration must quickly recognize this important obligation to U. S. investors, and if it fails to do so, the U. S. will surely take charge of collection...