The "New York Times" report from Mr. Arthur Krock, its correspondent, stating that expert sources had revealed a tacit naval understanding between the United States and Britain aroused urgent demands for information on American foreign policy in Congress to-day."
Mr. Krock reported that the agreement was the type conveyed by a "wink or nod" and not the kind of understanding that might be uncovered by a Senate investigation.
Mr. Ralph O. Brewster, Republican Representative of Maine, read the report before the House of Representatives Naval Affairs Committee and later demanded that Mr. Krock be summoned to give the source of his information.
"I demand that we call Mr. Krock to a Committee meeting to tell us where he gets this information that we cannot get" Mr. Brewster shouted before the Committee. "Are we mice or are we men?"
Mr. Joseph B. Shannon, Democratic Representative of Missouri, joined Mr. Brewster in demanding that Mr.
Krock be summoned.
"Not only should we call Mr. Krock to testify before the Committee," Mr. Shannon said, "but we should call everyone connected with the New York Times" He attacked the policies of the "Times," alleging that its purpose was to draw the United States into war. He said the "Times" represented the British Empire in the United States.
Mr. Carl Vinson, Democratic Representative of Georgia and author of the Vinson Navy Bill now under consideration by the Naval Affairs Committee, announced the Committee would vole at an open session tomorrow on whether to summon Mr.
Krock to testify.
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