The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1936-01-25
Americanisrn
Or Other
'Isrns'?
By James T. Williams, Jr.

ny James 4. "tLLt0tSI VT'
If the Senate of the United
States is as jealous Of its own
honor as it ought to be, it will
forthwith explore and expose the
circumstances under which the
so-called Nye investigation of mu-
nitions was instigated and has
been conducted.
It was under the Specious pre-.
text that "the Common Defense"
would be strengthened that the
Senate was urged by a coalition
of pacifists to order the Nye in
vestigation.
How does it happen that four
members Of the Nye Committee
have yet to vote for any essential
defense measure since they took
the Senatorial oath to provide
for "the Common Defense?
A VITAL UNIT
How does it happen that the
chairman of the Nye Committee
is aiding and abetting the raising
of a million-dollar-fund to cripple
or abolish the Reserve Officers
Training Corps-a vital unit Of
"the Common Defense?
How does it happen that the
chairman of the Nye Committee
is opposing further Federal sup
port for r. o. T. c. units in many
colleges and universities, opposing
the building up Of the Navy to
treaty strength and siding with
Japan against the United States
on the main issues under conSid-
Grafton at the London Naval Con-
ference which Japan has done her
best to smash?
How does it happen that, even
in his own State of North Dakota,
the chairman of the Nye Commit
tee has attempted to cripple the
R. o. T. C. unit at the University
of that State?
How does it happen that the
chairman of the Nye Committee
has been making speecheS-al-
Iegedly for hire or for expenses"
all over the country in which
he attacks vital parts of the Ma
tional Defense act, condemns the
system of training with the colors
established by Congress under the
Presidency of Abraham Lincoln?
EXAMINE RECORD
These are questions which
ought to be answered by the Sen
ate before it votes another dollar
to the Nye Committee upon the
theory that it's chairman and the
members of that committee whom
he controls are sincerely inter
ested in building up "the Com
mon defense"
Let the Senate Committee on
Military and Naval Affairs eX-
anime the record of the Nye Com
mittee and make reports to the
Senate regarding the effect Of its
hearings, investigations and other
activities on the Common De-
fense."
Let the Committee on Foreign
Relations investigate the alien
organizations and individuals that
have abetted the organization and
conduct of the Nye Committees
So-called investigation.
A list of these organizations,
their alien connections, their LOB
byists and their correspondence
with the Nye Committee and its
investigators ought to make inter.
esting reading for the American
people.
TINE TO CHOOSE
Let the Senate Committee on
the Judiciary investigate the
legality and the propriety of the
action of the Nye Committee in
accepting the aid of relief funds
and agencies to supplement the
money voted by the Senate to
cover the cost of the So-called
Nye investigation.
And let the Senate as whole
consider deliberately and consci-
entiouSly the wisdom of permitting
its name and authority to be used
at either end of Constitution
Avenue, or elsewhere, at home or
abroad, as it has been used by
the so-called Nye Committee. the
chairman of which is now lead
ing a movement to discourage
American youth from discharging
their obligations as a vital part
of "the Common Defense"
1t would seem to be high time
for the Senate to choose between
the Americanism of George Wash
ington, Abraham Lincoln and
Theodore Roosevelt and the "iSmS"
sponsored by the so-called Nye
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