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Qualified. Cordell Hull last week endorsed General Dwight D. Eisenhower's flat prediction of European victory in 1944. But by the time the Secretary added his characteristic, cautious circumlocutions, the forecast was refined toward nothingness...
...Department had burned its fingers by hastening to recognize the new government in Argentina, which turned out to be anti-Allied. Therefore Secretary of State Cordell Hull now moved with caution and suspicion on the question of recognizing the new Bolivian government. From the Department view, the deposed government of President Enrique Peñaranda, stooge of the tin-mine owners, had been satisfactory; after all, Bolivian tin kept flowing north, and that was the main thing. But from Washington came indications that the new government intended to cooperate fully with the U.S. The new government's "confidential agent...
...week's end, as well he might, Cordell Hull still wanted more information...
...Butler said the U.S. has lent Argentina $50 million for oil development. Replied Cordell Hull: no such loan was ever made...
...State Department looked unhappy. Secretary Hull was not quoted. Reporters who knew the Department's hostility to such alignments in Europe roared with laughter when a spokesman intoned: "It [the Treaty] is not to be understood to be in conflict with the general framework of worldwide security...