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...Cordell Hull, tanned by a Florida rest, took note of the chorus of complaints about the lack of U.S. foreign policy. He issued a 17-point rehash of his past statements and speeches. As thus defined, U.S. foreign policy is to defeat the nation's enemies, and assure the U.S. national security, economic and social wellbeing. This is to be done by Good Neighborly cooperation between nations, by an international agency to keep the peace, a world court, arms reduction, reduction of excessive trade barriers, international monetary stabilization. In the 17 points was nothing either new or concrete...
Twenty-One Congressmen. Radio Commentator Quincy Howe cracked that Mr. Hull's Seventeen Points put the Secretary of State seven points up on God, three up on Woodrow Wilson. But most Americans accepted these lofty abstractions as the noble aspirations of a sincere, high-principled man. If the President's and the State Department's deeds matched Cordell Hull's words, no one could complain that the U.S. has no foreign policy...
...reporters who pressed Mr. Hull for a single example of the application of his principles to Poland, Italy, Spain or Argentina were testily rebuffed with a statement that the Secretary did not want to take the bloom off a radio speech he intends to make shortly...
Stalin's bombshell announcement that the U.S.S.R. would exchange representatives with Badoglio's Government caused a lot of teeth-gnashing and fingernail-chewing. It vexed the U.S. State Department, puzzled the British and alarmed Communists. Secretary of State Cordell Hull announced coldly that the U.S. would not follow its ally's lead and "recognize" the Badoglio Government. Communists throughout the world bowed their Red heads and took it like party members. Naples' Communist Paolo Tedeschi declared: "Perhaps the recognition embarrassed us somewhat. . . but it will neither lessen our sympathy . . . for Russian Communism nor . . . our determination...
Drew Pearson (621 papers, circ. 18,000,000) is the most widely distributed Washington commentator, has been labeled generally as a New Dealer, occasionally as a trial balloon floater, and specifically by Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull as a liar.* Columnist Fisher is impressed by slim, suave Andrew Russell Pearson's "many overwhelming news beats," but finds on the debit side: Japan would attack Siberia early in 1943; Willkie would take an Administration post; Stalin would visit the U.S.; Russia could not hold out a month (in 1941) against Germany. Frequently sued for libel, involved in many a classic...