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General Charles de Gaulle, a man of rigid dissatisfaction, indicated last week that he was still dissatisfied with "arrangements" between France and her allies. Particularly, Cordell Hull's recent assurances (TIME. April 17) left much to be desired...
...Gaetano Salvemini, spade-bearded, spade-calling onetime anti-Fascist Italian legislator, Harvard historian (What to Do with Italy; TIME, Sept. 13), now teaching at University of California's Berkeley campus, pinned another of his poison-ivy notices on the laurel & olive of U.S. foreign policy. "Roosevelt and Hull know less about Europe than I know about Kentucky," he told West Coast newspapermen. "To be very frank, the policies of Roosevelt and Churchill so far as Europe goes are crazy. They don't know anything about it, and have poor advisers." Two days later the Hollywood Writers' Mobilization...
Major Paul Triquet, who won his decoration before Ortona (TIME, March 20), spoke to 15,000 fellow French Canadians in le régiment de Hull. They had participated in the bloodless occupation of Kiska with the U.S. forces. Now, he said, it was their duty to stand by fellow Canadians overseas. General Pearkes followed up: "The work you did at Kiska made your names honored. Your experience makes you invaluable as invasion forces. Play the man's part. . . . Volunteer now [for overseas service...
...friend Peter Fraser, Prime Minister of New Zealand, took a first step toward this dual goal of Pacific regionalism and stronger Empire ties. Their Canberra Agreement asserted ANZAC rights to be consulted on all Pacific dispositions. They must have moved too fast to suit President Roosevelt or old Cordell Hull; the reception in Washington was cold and silent. Though Whitehall kept very quiet, the scheme's reception in London was probably not much better...
...Washington's swank Mayflower Hotel last week, the ceremonious bestowal was made by Soviet Ambassador Andrei A. Gromyko to Secretary Hull, since all the heroes were still away on war business. Ambassador Gromyko, beaming and affable, could not forbear pointing out once more that "my country still carries the main burden of military efforts and sacrifices." He sugared this pill by prophesying that Russia's allies would have a large share in the final victory...