* *. * The Shearer Inquiry .
It is impossible to summarize the tangled, inquiry whi. ch is being conducted by a Sub-Committee of the American Senate into the propagandist methods of Mr. William B. Shearer. At every point Mr. Shearer's . , record seems to have been questionable both in England and. America. He boasts that he upset the Anglo- American naval. negotiations at Geneva in 1927, but some of his industrial employers claim credit for having dismissed him summarily when they discovered the real character of his agitation. His trump card before the Sub-Committee has been an alleged " secret British document," which he said_ he had obtained circuitously and which was the means of disclosing British intrigues to the Navy Department. He attributed the document to. Sir William Wiseman, who is now in business in New York but Was at the time in question Head of the British Intelligence Service. Sir William Wiseman promptly telegraphed to the Sub-Committee, pointing out that the dOcument was a clumsy forgery. When he was supposed to have written it in the United States he was attending the Peace Conference in Paris.
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