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...days later into Mr. Hull's office trooped 21 of 24 freshman Republican Representatives. All were internationalists and consistent supporters of Mr. Hull. They had written him a respectful letter requesting "some explanation of your puzzling silence" about concrete U.S. foreign policy. After 150 minutes the 21 Republicans emerged wrapped in gloom. Said Maine's Robert Hale, onetime Rhodes scholar: "Mr. Hull was cordial and courteous, but I left with the same impression that I had when I went in-that the Administration has no foreign policy." New York's Bernard W. Kearney was briefer: "No hits...
...midweek Secretary Hull trudged firmly up the Capitol steps to try to answer some questions for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Gesturing constantly with a sidearm wave of his right hand and forearm, the old man talked for two hours without glancing at a note. But the generalities of his review added little to the Senators' information. His main theme: in wartime the State Department's primary task is to help win the earliest possible victory with the fewest possible losses. Nearly all questions should be held for the peace table...
...Motivations. The meeting was confidential, but, as usual, it leaked. During it, Secretary Hull, worn, harassed, irascible, complained at great length about his "damned detractors" of the press and radio. He let drop one tidbit of news: he had taken a plan for the future of Germany to Moscow, but it had been ruled off the conference agenda even though Eden and Litvinoff personally thought it was fine. But mostly old Mr. Hull harped on what are now clearly the two prime motivations of U.S. foreign policy...
Still Cordell Hull got no rest. Instead, he received a letter from 14 other Republican Congressmen, asking all over again: "What are we fighting...
...which many had failed; most attempts had simply placed an ordinary truck on pontoons, with dampening results. OSRD assigned the ticklish part of the design, not to a truck maker, but to a firm of yacht designers, Sparkman & Stephens. They were to produce a watertight hull; General Motors, Yellow Trucks, the truck chassis and motor...