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...Finnish charge d'affaires in the U.S., Alexander Thesleff, walked into the State Department at 11 a.m. one morning last week. Eleven minutes later Mr. Thesleff emerged, bearing a formal note, signed by Cordell Hull, ending diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Finland. Thus, in a manner as routine as dismissing an office boy, the U.S. ceased to have diplomatic relations with the ninth nation since World War II began,*and with a nation which for two decades had been a favorite of the U.S. public...
...show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly issued a statement explaining that his remarks were intended only as a compliment, but purple-tempered old Cordell Hull was not appeased. "In all my career," said one State Department oldtimer, "I have never seen Mr. Hull...
When aging (72) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave in to the Villarroel Government last week, Great Britain and 19 Latin American Governments promptly followed suit, for nearly all of them had been pressing the U.S. for this action for some months. The Argentines, who had happily recognized the Nazi-loaded Villarroel Government from the start, were presumably laughing up their diplomatic sleeves...
This struck home. The following day Cordell Hull, shaking and disturbed, angrily told his press conference that the U.S. had, for 150 years, furthered the freedom of small nations and would continue to do so. He did not see any reason, he said, why the U.S. people had to be catechized on this every morning before breakfast...
...went, Honest John kept plugging, trying to smoke out Messrs. Roosevelt & Dewey. He gave his own opinion freely on every topic. And. although he got no credit, he won a major point during the week. He has long been on record against an international police force. When the Roosevelt-Hull blueprint was unveiled it contained no such provision...