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...State Department report was a compilation of some 240 separate protests made to the enemy while the war raged. Behind the stiff, formal language was apparent the rage which must have gripped Secretaries Hull and Stettinius every time a new atrocity account came in. The Department had refrained from public outburst as long...
...Cordell Hull, then the Secretary of State...
...when they turned their eyes on Washington that the Board rushed in where angels might fear to tread and coolly named Gerow, Marshall and Hull as negligent...
...Hull (said the Board) had to share in the blame because his Nov. 26 "ultimatum" to the Japanese, delivered when the Army and Navy were desperately playing for time, had "hastened" the onslaught. Hull's note was no ultimatum (it was his last word). But (said the Board) "it is significant that the Secretary of War had to go and call on Mr. Hull to get the information on what amounted to the cessation of negotiations, which was the most vital thing that had occurred...
Some 900 square miles of rolling hills, woods, rivers, canals, the cities of Ottawa and Hull will be converted into a "National Capital District," most of it across the Ottawa River in Quebec province. The whole district will be a memorial to Canada's World War II dead...