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...plan that had been put forward, by Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau, had roused the violent objections of Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson. The President was said to be leaning toward the Morgenthau side...
Hastily the President appointed a Cabinet committee to consider the problem. The members: Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau. The Cabinet committee met three times in three days, just before the President was forced to leave for Quebec. Messrs. Hull and Stimson strongly opposed the Morgenthau program to strip Germany. Both agreed that such a super-Versailles would only justify a future German generation in once more uniting to plan revenge. They wanted rigid controls, for many years to come, but they wanted Germany, for centuries the economic center of Middle Europe, put back on its economic feet. They only wanted...
...State Department proposal that all nations join to guarantee world freedom of the news was approved by Secretary Hull, sent to the White House...
...Administration last week attacked international cartels. The attack, well-staged and publicized, was opened by President Roosevelt before the Quebec conference began, with word that he had written to Secretary of State Cordell Hull "to keep an eye" on cartels. The problem of curbing them, said Mr. Roosevelt, is one of the No. 1 international problems which must be faced soon...
...Hull's reply was big news; it was issued from Quebec. Secretary Hull announced that he is already planning an international conference on cartels. Washington believed that what Mr. Hull had in mind was a convention against cartels, that he would like other nations to subscribe to the philosophy of the U.S. antitrust acts. Next day, for plain citizens still hazy on why the Administration was so excited, the Justice Department's antitrust division provided an example...