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Last week Cordell Hull may have harvested abroad the greatest triumph of his career (see p. 13), but in the corridors of his State Department there was a distinct scent of resignation, in every sense of the word. The family, neither little nor happy, was breaking up. Latest withdrawal from a team that isn't there: Dr. Herbert Feis, since 1931 the chief economic adviser in the Department...
...leaving, Dr. Feis had lost not a fight but his patience. His economic credo-free trade, moderately state-controlled international movement of capital-is Mr. Hull's too. But under a Secretary sometimes praised for basing his foreign policy on economics, the Department's economic division has been reduced to mediocre research. Economic world policy for the U.S., if any, is to be shaped in the Treasury and in Leo Crowley's newly begotten Foreign Economic Administration. From Mr. Hull's economic advisers nothing seems expected beyond long-staled routines...
...that Hull of the U.S., Eden of Britain, Molotov of the U.S.S.R. had accomplished could be summed up in one tremendous word-agreement. They-and their chiefs in the Kremlin, in London, in Washington-agreed on the military finish of the war in Europe, on the timing and force of the Anglo-U.S. second front, on battle to the end by the Red Army, on strategy in the Mediterranean...
London heard that the biggest single factor was the initial and complete exchange of military information. From Eden, Hull and their military aides, the Russians got-and believed that they were getting-full information about the resources, intentions and specific plans of the U.S. and Britain. From the Russians, the Anglo-Americans got-and believed that they were getting-equally complete information about the Red Army's capacities and plans...
...Cordell Hull broke his rule against social gadding in Moscow, stayed until the last dog was hung-at 2:30 a.m.-at a brilliant state dinner, and heard Joseph Stalin toast the U.S. and British Armies in Italy. Later, Hull gave his own reactions...