Nye Rides Again

For the 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 and what it may have promised to do."

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 day.

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