Complex sentence: Then the Rotary, which was purchasing the property in instalments, failed to make the payments, leaving York to pay himself and then in 1921 to ask for help, resulting in an extended discussion of his finances in the press, some of it sharply critical.
Split into simpler sentences: Then the Rotary, which was purchasing the property in instalments, failed to make the payments, leaving York to pay himself. Inn 1921 he had to ask for help, resulting in an extended discussion of his finances in the press, some of it sharply critical.