Evening star., 1936-01-17

charge that the war time President
and his Secretary of State, Robert
Lansing, had "falsified" in telling a
% Senate Foreign Relations Committee
in 1919 that they had not heard until
the end of the war about secret allied
treaties for the division of Europe,
Nye flung more sharp terms at Con-
nally.
Until ]. P. Morgan and his partners
In the great banking house were called
to the stand about two weeks ago, he
said, there was little criticism of the
committees efforts. But with their
appearance "one could sense change
of sentiment" he contended
False Picture" Charged.
Nye said press reports of the hear
ings were impartial, but the editorial
pages were giving false picture"
Evidently the committee was tread
ing upon sacred ground, and where
such royal houses as the house of
Morgan are concerned the committee
should not tread.
Il want to make it clear that am
wholly unashamed of the course that
has incensed the Goliath from Texas" ;"
Replying to Connally'S protest that
Nye had absented himself from the
Senate while the Texan was speaking,
the munitions chairman said he had
been presiding at hearings at which
the Morgan bankers were present and
had left his defense in the good
hands" of Senator Clark, Democrat.
of Missouri. Clark had shared with
garding Wilson.
Nye said the Morgan group had
been advised in advance of the Con-
nally attack and of the statement
made before the committee by Senator
Pope, Democrat, of Idaho, one of its
members, criticizing the hearing as
having "degenerated" into an effort
to discredit Wilson.
''I wish the Senate could have seen
the SNUG smiles of satisfaction that
spread over their faces" he said.
Shows Lansing Papers.
Repeating his contention that Will
son and his Secretary of State "falsi-
fed" Nye held up private papers of
Lansing which he said he obtained
from the Congressional Library on the
promise they would not be made
public.
Il will not betray that confidence"
he said, but he passed the papers
around to Senators.
After the Senator from Texas reads
that, if he can declare Lansing did not
falsify I fail utterly to understand
what it will take in the nature of
proof"
will the Senator repeat now that
Wilson and Lansing falsified?" asked
Connally before he saw the papers.
Il do repeat it," Nye replied, with
out any malice whatever"
The committee today was in ad-
journment until next Thursday, when
it will again emerge from the trenches
in quest of its elusive quarry-the per-
son or thing responsible for Americas
entry in the conflict of 1917-18.
A committee rebellion was staged
late yesterday afternoon by Senators
George, Democrat, of Georgia, and
Pope.
Chairman Nye and his colleagues
had been driving ahead doggedly in
their efforts to pin ''unneutral" acts
on Morgan and his partners in
the early days Of the war, when Nye
suddenly ran into a counter-barrage
of charges Of "unneutrality, bias and
animus" in the conduct of the hear
ings.
1t all started Wednesday, when Nye
hurled charge of Justification" at
the long-dead Democrats, President
Wilson and his Secretary of State,
Robert Lansing. Nye made the
charge as Senator Clark, son of the
man Wilson defeated for the presiden-
tial nomination in 1912. was reading
documents showing Wilson and Lansing
had made statements before Senate
committee that were at variance with
what Clark said were "the records"
Nye asserted Wilson and Lansing
"falsified' when they told the Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in 1919
they had no knowledge of existence
of secret allied treaties for postwar
division of "spoils" until they learned
of them at Paris after the war. He
said the memoirs of Lord Balfour and
Lloyd George and certain other docu-
ments prove otherwise.
Neither Senator Pope nor Senator
George was present when the charges
were made, but when they read about
them in the newspapers, they sat
down and wrote out a formal state
ment severely castigating Nye for
"impugning" the motives and integ-
rity Of Wilson and Lansing.