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Resolutions offered by Senators Nye and Clark to restrict the issuance of passports and the making of loans to belligerent nations are of particular significance at this time, since the policy of Great Britain at the forthcoming Stresa Conference depends largely upon the attitude of the United States. The Nye-Clark resolutions, which express a willingness to abandon our traditional insistence on the "freedom of the seas" in a technically legal sense, would--if adopted--encourage the English in the belief that the American navy would not oppose British blockade of an aggressor nation. Thus the way for acceptance...
This year's strike, the second of its kind, will take place simultaneously in colleges throughout the country under the auspices of the National Student League, the Student League for Industrial Democracy, and other losser organizations. Telegrams of endorsement were sent to the Committee by Senators Gerald P. Nye, Bonnett P. Clark, Homer Bohn, and J. S. Pope...
...Senator to appear before a committee to laud a tycoon-witness was sufficiently impressive. For a group of inquisitors virtually to apologize for ever having thought anything ill of a tycoon-witness was even rarer. When Senator Byrnes finished speaking, Senator Nye, who chairmans the Munitions Committee, hastily interposed...
Snapped a spokesman: "Details of that agreement have never been revealed and remain unavailable." Few days later, after the Hitler bombshell at Berlin (see below), North Dakota's irate Gerald Nye, chairman of the U. S. Senate's munitions quiz, thundered: "The munitions makers have at last talked Germany into scrapping the Treaty of Versailles so they can sell their wares...
...Munitions Committee could not consider the request immediately because Missouri's plump Senator Bennett Champ Clark last week tumbled down a flight of stairs in his home, was too sore to go to Capitol Hill. Senator Nye saw ''no reason to question the motives of Mr. Hearst...