The Nye Committee, officially known as the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, was a United States Senate committee, chaired by U.S. Senator Gerald Nye (R-ND). The committee investigated the financial and banking interests that underlay the United States' involvement in World War I and the operations and profits of the industrial and commercial firms supplying munitions to the Allies and to the United States. It was a significant factor in public and political support for American neutrality in the early stages of World War II.
Senator Gerald Nye (R-North Dakota), Head of the Senate Munitions Investigating Committee
Gerald Prentice Nye was an American politician who represented North Dakota in the United States Senate from 1925 to 1945. Nye rose to national fame in the 1930s as chair of the Special Committee on Investigation of the Munitions Industry, which studied the causes of United States' involvement in World War I and became known as the Nye Committee. Prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor, he was a prominent opponent of United States involvement in World War II.
Nye in December 1925
Gerald Nye Becomes Sen. Nye
Nye (left) and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. of Massachusetts confer with each other in their call for President Roosevelt to invoke the Neutrality Act to keep the U.S. out of the Sino-Japanese conflict (1937).
