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...Finland, apparently on the ragged edge of dropping out of the war, the U.S. applied a merciless diplomatic pincer. (The Russian planes, blasting Kotka and Helsinki, were the other pincer-prong.) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave the Finns a final warning to get out of the war (see p. 34). This was patient Cordell Hull's umpteenth move toward this effect...
...crump of Russian bombs in Helsinki splintered the frozen stillness of the Finnish winter. Over Finland's radio came the numbing news that Cordell Hull had warned the Finns to quit the war at once. It was Hull's third try, but the first to reach the ears of most Finns. In the white forests and around the windswept shores of Finland's myriad icebound lakes, Finns blinked and wondered...
Lifeboat (Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Walter Slezak, Canada Lee, Mary Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Heather Angel; TIME...
...months already, but it was great to have someone say so officially. The New York Daily News promptly warned its readers that soon all elections would be suspended. Radio Commentator Kaltenborn began to think up phrases for the unseen millions; Commentator Arthur Hale prepared some confidential sidelights. Roosevelt appointed Hull and Byrnes as U.S. delegates to the peace conference. He also appointed Willkie-just before Willkie was to be nominated for President. It made Willkie mad: he had hoped to win votes by promising, if elected, to send Roosevelt to Europe for four years...
Lifeboat (Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, John Hodiak, Henry Hull, Walter Slezak, Canada Lee, Mary Anderson, Hume Cronyn, Heather Angel; TIME...