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Show RECORDS LAID BARE. Senator Gilbert M. Hitchcock of Nebraska, Ne-braska, chairman of the foreign relations rela-tions committee, seems to have had very strong pro-German leanings before i the United States entered the war, and ! that may account for his failure to sup-port sup-port the president after the declaration was made. Hitchcock was prominent irk, the movement to bring about an embargo em-bargo on arms in the interest of Germany Ger-many and to the detriment of the entente en-tente allies. Among those engaged in this conspiracy Chief Bielaski names former Representative Buchanan of Illinois, Illi-nois, a man with a most unsavory reputation; repu-tation; William Bayard Hale, a paid employee of Dr. Dernburg, the propagandist; propa-gandist; the notorious Dr. Aked, former for-mer Senator Works of California, and Senator Hoke Smith of Georgia, The plan proved abortive, arms and foodstuffs food-stuffs wore shipped to the allies in vast quantities, the United States finally entered the war, and tho pro-German element in both political parties lost caste. Hitchcock, who $ about tho same ope as William Hohenzollern, finished fin-ished his education in Germany at the same time the ex-war lord got through with university work, and it is fair to presumo that the Nebraska man returned re-turned to the United States fully conscious con-scious of the fact that he went to school with a ember of the imperial family, and it is probable he became impregnated impreg-nated with German kultur to a greater or less extent. At any rate, he was on the German side of the fence when the gTeat war broke out in 1914. He did much to thwart the efforts of the administration ad-ministration in the early days of our war preparations, and tho people of the country, without regard to party, will hail the day when the Republicans take control of the senate and place some other man at the head of the foreign relations committee. . |