MUNITIONS INQUIRY DISRUPTION
ATTACK ON PRESIDENT WILSON (Received 11.30 a.m.) WASHINGTON, January 17. The Munitions Investigations Committee of the Senate was on the verge of disruption, when not only open dissent occurred anpong its members, but bitter attacks on its activities were made on the floor of the Senate. Threats were made that its appropriation of 125,000 dollars, which had 'already been spent, would not be renewed.
All this arose from statements by the chairman, Senator G. P. Nye, that President Wilson and Mr Robert Lansing, Secretary of State from 1915 to r 920, were “falsifiers” in their testimony in 1919 that they did not know of the existence of secret treaties for the distribution of German and other enemy territories until after their arrival in Paris. Speeches were made in defence of President Wilson and Mr Lansing, and Senator Nye’s charges were called “head hunting.” Senator Nye, very crestfallen, said his charges were made without malice. Mr J. P. Morgan, continuing his testimony, expressed resentment at the intimation that he had been “purchased by British money.” Senator A. H. Vandenberg (Republican) uttered charges that American commerce had been given the centre of the road at the expense of American neutrality.
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Northern Advocate, 18 January 1936, Page 6
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