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...last week Franklin Roosevelt had been busy with conferences pointing toward Quebec. He appointed Secretaries Stimson, Hull and Morgenthau as a special Cabinet committee to work out U.S. proposals for unkinking the economy of liberated countries, met the committee three times in three days. He had his first full-dress session with the Chiefs of Staff since his return from the Pacific. He summoned Robert D. Murphy, soon to be the top U.S. diplomat in Germany. He had a chat with British Ambassador Lord Halifax (and made a bet with him-amount undisclosed-on the war's end-date...
...less-emotional Yorkshireman, Professor Thomas Edmund Jessop of Hull University, wagged a warning finger at possible postwar nerves. Said he: "The only salvation of the English people may be their traditional phlegmatic attitude toward events. . . . The machine is going too fast for the average human mind and the strain may prove too great...
...Brooklyn, Abby and Martha Brewster (played with twinkling good humor by Josephine Hull and Jean Adair, creators of the stage roles) are looked upon as just two fluttery old maids lovingly taking care of a crack-brained nephew (John Alexander) who thinks he is Teddy Roosevelt. Little do the good-natured local cops dream that there are twelve bodies buried in the cellar. Presently a truculent, criminally insane nephew (Raymond Massey) appears. He also has twelve murders to his credit and a crooked sawbones (Peter Lorre) to help him. A whimsical competition ensues to see who will be first...
Palmer says that the main issue of the presidential campaign this fall is foreign policy, and that therefore, "despite the fact that Dowey would make a capable administrator, I think it is important to maintain the present administration. Not because Roosevelt and Hull are 'indispensable', but because I believe they have a decidedly more genuine internationalistic policy. I feel quite certain that the recent espousals of international cooperation by Dewey and Bricker are nothing more than political opportunism, nor do I think that either are profoundly attached to the principle of a cooperative world organization...
...Hull was cooperative. The Secretary showed Dulles the U.S. plan for the Dumbarton Oaks Conference. He also outlined the chief differences in the British and Russian plans, just as he had done previously for Congressional leaders of both parties...