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...Woman must secure governmental control of the munitions industry so that the vicious conditions unearthed by the Nye Committee will not be repeated. But she is never going to do this by performing the fallacious errand of scuttling back to the kitchen to search for her soul...
...There was Alf Landon, John Hamilton, Joseph Pew, Senator Nye and the Rev. Gerald L. K. Smith; and, of course, the metropolitan McCormick-Patterson newspaper axis. They were loud. They were angry. They indulged in much loose talk. . . . These political locusts had nothing to say. . . . [They are] discredited mouthpieces of reaction. . . . They simply agreed in their hatred of the outstanding Republican of our time-Wendell Willkie...
...General Sir Bernard Montgomery last week asked London for waterproofed pants and jacket. The package was made up, sent. Its custodian: the Bishop of Southwark (pronounced suth'-erk), beginning a tour of military stations. But ahead went a message to "Monty" from Lieut. General A. E. Nye, Vice Chief of the Imperial General Staff...
...first time since Pearl Harbor, North Dakota's die-hard isolationist Senator Gerald P. Nye, who mortally hates and fears the British Empire, got himself some real headlines. Last week Gerald Nye told the press: the Senate, probably by Nov. 1, will launch a thoroughgoing investigation of all U.S. Lend-Lease expenditures. The investigating Senators (including Nye, Maryland's Millard E. Tydings and Tennessee's Kenneth McKellar) will look suspiciously into all U.S. funds spent abroad. Nye, longtime enemy of Lend-Lease, explained: "We don't know enough about what this country is doing abroad...
Once (in 1934) Investigator Nye investigated munitions makers so belligerently that he convinced many U.S. citizens that all wars are deliberately fomented to enrich the "merchants of death," and incidentally scared U.S. business so far out of munitions-making as to delay U.S. rearmament substantially. All Washington knew that Britain-Baiter Nye would, if he could, turn his Lend-Lease inquiry into an anti-British field...