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...Washington Merry-Go-Round columns (circ. 18,500,000): "[Secretary of State Cordell] Hull long has been anti-Russian...
...radio program (3,500,000 listeners): "Mr. Hull and his chief assistants, Adolf Berle, Jimmy Dunn, Breckinridge Long, actually would like to see Russia bled white-and the Russians know...
Through the Pipeline. Franklin Roosevelt's angry outburst was designed 1) to back up Cordell Hull, who had called Pearson's statements "monstrous and diabolical falsehoods," 2) to reassure Moscow, still the suspicious, explosive unknown in United Nations diplomacy. Yet the' outburst left one problem unsolved, raised several new ones...
Chief target of Hull's sizzling attack was Columnist Drew Pearson, who printed the charge that Hull and other Department of State officials were blindly hostile to Russia. Crackled the Secretary: "Monstrous and diabolical falsehoods...
...Cordell Hull's anger cleared nothing up, said none of the things that needed urgently to be said. In dropping Sumner Welles he had dropped the chief architect of the U.S.'s Good Neighbor Policy in South America, an opponent of those who would do business with Fascists on the basis of expediency, a known and respected advocate of U.S. cooperation in international affairs. The U.S. still awaits a clarification of its foreign policy and the forced resignation of Sumner Welles made an already murky issue even more obscure. Until that issue is plain, angry Cordell Hull...