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...last week, insiders said, two of the President's top czars consulted on the quiet with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Subject: how to get rid of Under Secretary Sumner Welles...
That noon good, grey Cordell Hull coolly and thoroughly denied the story as a fabrication. He was a little vague on the future status of Mr. Welles but clear that no such move was contemplated...
...Department No. 1 is presided over by stern, righteous, feudal old Cordell Hull, architect of the reciprocal trade agreements, believer in old-fashioned international law, a Cabinet officer who is politically unassailable...
...Messrs. Hull and Welles treat each other correctly, and even with a kind of friendliness at times. But mentally they are poles apart on most things. Welles is one of the swiftest, most businesslike administrators in the Government; Hull, perhaps because of his 24 years in Congress, is firm in his upright beliefs but lost in masses of papers and data that stack his desk...
There was confusion in the State Department, he said, but this of course could by no means be attributed to good, grey Secretary Hull. All troubles would vanish, he continued, if only the President would give Mr. Hull his own way. Mr. Krock wanted to make it absolutely clear that he still admired Mr. Hull...