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Only a few hours before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had announced that the U.S. had, at last, invited Great Britain, Russia and China to discuss a definite blueprint for a world organization to keep the peace. A correspondent asked a question right down Mr. Roosevelt's alley: "Mr. President, when you were Assistant Secretary of the Navy you supported President Wilson on the League of Nations idea. How do you feel about that...
...said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working with Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee and a special committee from the House (see cut). So far, the President added, the consultations had been conducted on a very high plane of nonpartisanship...
...Plan. What, actually, did the President's plan propose? Neither the President nor Secretary Hull divulged anything more, but the news leaked. The Great Blueprint, it developed, had been started in February 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. It had been finished, in its present working-draft form, in May 1943. The President had kept the plan secret until well after Teheran, until he judged the political weather was right...
France. Winston Churchill accepted the Roosevelt-Hull definition of General Charles de Gaulle's status: his Government 1) will "exercise leadership in the matter of law and order in the liberated area of France" 2) will be under General Eisenhower's supervision until the fighting ends. But Churchill was more friendly than Washington had ever been, sounded genuinely glad when he announced that De Gaulle was coming to London. He gave De Gaulle and the French Empire much credit for tangible contributions to Allied victory, said that these services entitled the De Gaulle Government to "the fourth place...
...time he reached Chicago, Father Orlemanski had decided to turn the other cheek. The idea for the trip, he said, was his own. Last January he wrote Secretary of State Cordell Hull asking for a passport to visit Russia "to investigate for myself and study the Polish question." He wrote twice before he received a reply. Then he was referred to Manhattan's Russian consulate. To Father Orlemanski's intense surprise, the answer came not from Manhattan but from Moscow-"direct from Marshal Stalin personally inviting me to come to Russia...