Show A 11 rt v.- v. i Nyes Nye's F Ends I impressed the country at first firs as a ade de desirable de- de enterprise seeking t to discover primary mary war causes causes- but turned out to be a one- one ring circus with Senator G Gerald Nye Nyc as ringmaster ringmaster ringmaster ring ring- master has folded up ingloriously A Actually ld n relief part o of ot the time it it i is a a pity that tha When its ts legitimate source funds of-funds dried up i it did not call it a day and qui quit It is difficult if no not impossible to see that anything of constructive e value was obtained ined in inthe inthe the testimony of the the Morgan Morgan pa partners before the Ithe senate munitions committee Under Nyes Nye's yes ye's leadership leadership lead lead- the body departed wh wholly from the dign dignity dig- dig n ty of a senate committee when its inquiry reached the Wi Wilson Lansing st stage ge Ih this phase of its probe doubtless facts facts' could have been developed had not the North I D Dakotan otan kotan overstepped al all limits of good taste as well as creating a basis for inte international national ill will The manner mannel of conducting this investigation investigation tion gives reason to question the senators senator's sinceritY sincerity sin sin- as a neu neutrality advocate and reveals him himas as a most awkward chairman He has caus caused d the thi senate and the nation unfortunate embar embar- Secretary Hulls Hull's statement issued Sunday night light telling lg that he had advised Senator Nyes Nye's committee of the impossibility of drafting an airtight neutrality law contains a suggestion j that at it may not have been on the senators senator's initiative initiative initiative in in- in- in that the probe was brought to a sudden halt Wh When n the governments government's confidential flies files were Vere made public property by the committee it became known in Washington that Great Britain Brit Brit- am ain aln Prance France ance and nd Italy had already registered strenuous ous objections to this sort of thing They did not want Europe Europe- to be further inflamed by disc disclosures that Woo Woodrow i ow Wilson Lloyd George Frances France's Clemenceau Clemence au and Italy's Orlando had remade the map of the old world even before the th Versailles treaty was drafted These three nations r il had been sh shocked ed enough h by the pub n by o our r state depart department ent of confidential without consent of the nations papers concerned concerned con con con- International law lawand and niceties s' s of f cus- cus torn om prescribe that such consent must be given n. n v Nyes Nye's committee was already on thin ice when S Secretary Hull Hul interposed It may be that lack lacko lackoV o oV 1 fund had little orr nothing to do with the thes s suspension of the committees committee's s 's s probe iu 1 Much h of the more than 2 it has spent ba has been worse th than n wasted |