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...foreign traders' fears of permanently losing their market to the British for certain types of goods, and the importers' desire to re-establish trade are understandable. In the meantime, they can only hope that cagey Cordell Hull knows what he's doing...
Karloff. The book includes a few old standbys, but for literate shivers such tales as Helen Hull's Clay-Shuttered Doors and Oliver Onions' brilliant The Beckoning Fair One make the collection well worth reading...
Beyond the immediate job of victory the triumvirate confronts the task of building a lasting superstructure on the foundation laid at Moscow; of building a world in which, as Secretary Hull hopefully declared to Congress last week (see p. 21), "there will no longer be need for spheres of influence, for alliances, for balance of power." The hopes of millions for such a world may be shattered unless these three great personal leaders succeed in establishing among themselves a solid bond of confidence in each other's good faith and good will...
...first time since the early days of the Republic, a Cabinet member reported in person to Congress. Cordell Hull, appearing in the House before the two great bodies, facing kleig lights, the Diplomatic Corps, Cabinet members and packed galleries, stood at the zenith of his career. But the 72-year-old Tennessee mountaineer, cool and reserved as ever, made no play for the greatest gallery of his life. In his own way, cautious but sure, steady and tenacious, he hammered away again at the cardinal tenets of his diplomatic philosophy. Thus he made no stirring show, and not much news...
When W. Averell Harriman succeeded Admiral Standley, Washington decided on a new deal, a whole new pack of cards to boot. Faymonville was relieved and reduced. Also relieved were Michela (reduced to Colonel) and Standley's former aide, Rear Admiral Jack Duncan. To Congress Cordell Hull proclaimed: "I am glad to say there is now in Moscow a highly competent U.S. Military Mission headed by Major General John R. Deane, [former secretary to the U.S. members of the Combined Chiefs of Staff]." Faymonville's job last week: temporary duty at the Texarkana Ordnance Center...