and have you not had something to do with its operations and its management?”
Mr. Warburg—“Yes.”
Senator Bristow—“Does that not go to show your general views and practices as a financier and as a citizen and as a business man?”
Mr. Warburg—“Yes; but you have got to take them individually.... I cannot permit my firm to be drawn into this discussion.”
Senator Bristow—“But how can you divest yourself from your firm when you have been one of the managers of the firm?”
Mr. Warburg—“I shall divest myself of the firm.”
Senator Bristow—“If the firm has done something that I might think was improper—to illustrate, being called upon to say whether or not I approve your nomination to this responsible position—have I not a right to know what your attitude was in regard to that transaction which your firm performed?”