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...Cordell Hull's speech was not the clear delineation of foreign policy that had been hoped for. No doubt, in the speeches he promised to make within the next few months, the Secretary planned to be more explicit...
...Drew Pearson, long noted for his pipelines into the State Department, promptly issued a statement which retracted nothing. Said he: "The Russians . . . were fully aware of Mr. Hull's long and consistent anti-Russian attitude. It didn't take me to tell them about it. ... However, if the President needed a scapegoat, I am glad if anything I have said now forces the Administration to make clear in words what certainly was not clear before in deeds...
...Department thus deliberately attempts to lead its opponents into the errors Mr. Hull self-righteously charges them with making, by withholding from them the explanations which it gives to its tributary writers...
Bracketed, the PT weaved desperately to escape, then came to a grinding halt on the cruel edge of a coral reef which held the thin mahogany plywood hull like a bear trap. Jap fire was creeping closer. The youthful skipper ordered men to destroy secret devices and papers, gave the word to abandon ship. One enlisted man was killed on deck; the others swam through shark-infested waters to safety aboard another U.S. vessel...
...Maisky, popular former Ambassador to the Court of St. James's, had returned to London last week to meet with Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U.S. Ambassador John Winant. Their talks would prepare an agenda for a conference among Foreign Commissar Molotov, Foreign Secretary Eden, Secretary of State Hull. Then, according to the urgent schedule, would come the meeting of Churchill, Roosevelt and Stalin...