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...Russia, so far, has not actually rejected the principles of Teheran; it has qualified them, as her spokesmen probably did when they talked to Messrs. Hull and Roosevelt. On the Russian record to date, the Soviet qualification is that the U.S.S.R. insists on making its own regional position secure before it actually enters any framework of "general security...
...angered many officials in the lower levels of U.S. diplomacy. They in turn have inspired many veiled, semiofficial expressions of irritation with almost every aspect of Russian policy since Teheran. At higher levels concern also exists, but irritation is much less evident. The facts seem to be that Messrs. Hull and Roosevelt were pretty well informed of the immediate Soviet attitude, were not unduly surprised by such performances as the Moscow denunciation of Wendell Willkie and earlier Moscow attacks on proposals for European federations. U.S. spokesmen will be in a position to question Russia's diplomacy when-and only...
Said Cordell Hull: Yes, if all the peoples in the United Nations (and particularly those behind the front lines) redouble their support, and if they promote a greater state of unity in their cooperative efforts, the European war might end at some such stage as General Eisenhower had suggested. But even so, concluded the Secretary, we should not become too optimistic...
...Bolivia). It has Communist members; it also has a clear anti-Fascist and pro-United Nations record. Its head is short, dark José Antonio Arze, once teacher at Williams College in the U.S., who has been living in exile in Mexico City. First he cabled Secretary Cordell Hull and Vice President Henry Wallace suggesting they withhold recognition until certain conditions were met by the Villarroel Government, then he started by air for La Paz. If he is taken into the Government, its few more or less liberal members may be turning the Villarroel regime toward something resembling democracy...
...more than a maze of corridors full of warring tribes. Washington newsmen heard that the Department looked to the PIR to set matters aright; that the PIR was nothing but a Soviet tool, and therefore suspect. (The sources of this report had apparently not heard about Teheran.) Secretary Cordell Hull conferred for an hour with British Ambassador Lord Halifax, discussing the Bolivian crisis. Obvious topic would be a possible united front against Argentina and her suspected machinations...