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...overshadowing in importance any of these far-flung details was the long-awaited tripartite conference in Moscow between the diplomatic chiefs of Russia, Britain and the U.S.. Age-brittle, tough Cordell Hull, wha will represent the U.S. at the meeting, will personalize the U.S. to Russians. And to Americans his long journey symbolizes the great lengths to which America has gone, is now going, and must yet go in the field of international relations-a long road whose...
This week the Secretary of State of the U.S. and the Foreign Minister of Great Britain are about to do business with Moscow. Cordell Hull, an honest, sincere and limited man from Tennessee, and Anthony Eden, a middle-class patrician from Britain, will go into conference with Viacheslav Molotov, a Russian revolutionary and politician who speaks for and only by permission of the toughest ruler in the modern world...
There are limits to what these men can actually accomplish. This conference is a preliminary: the positive accomplishments must be left to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, when & if they meet. But there is no limit to what Hull, Eden and Molotov can fail to accomplish. If they do fail-and they may -their failure will be reflected in the fires of World War II, and in that war's aftermath. If they succeed, Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin will then have their historic chance to make World War II a victory for all the Allies...
...leader, chose him last summer as one of the heads of the liberal Action Party that now, under the home-front guidance of doughty Emilio Lussu, is one of the united underground groups struggling to shape Italy's destiny. When chafing Carlo Sforza last week showed Cordell Hull an urgent summons from the Italian underground, the Secretary of State gave permission for the trip home. Said Cordell Hull: "I see, your moral duty is to go. We will be glad if you do. But, of course, you go as a private citizen, without any mission, at your own risk...
Good Neighbor necessities changed Cordell Hull's tune on expropriation. By 1941, the U.S. had to make a face-saving deal to wash out the rest of its oil mess at a payment by Mexico of $24,000,000 plus interest-a metaphysical figure arrived at by a joint two-man commission of experts.* Last week the State Department announced that Mexico, now fat with U.S. dollars, had made final arrangements to settle its debt in full. With the final annual payment in September 1947, Mexico will own all U.S. oil properties outright for a total...