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...real work was now done by Czars, of which the U.S. has ten. Cabinet members were left to shift for themselves, and to find whatever glory they could in their titles. Their actions last week: State. Cordell Hull, 71, talked with the press. He saw some envoys. One night he dined departing Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden...
Such trends towards economic nationalism were stimulated all over the world on the advent of the Great Depression. In 1934, however, with the guidance of Secretary Hull, Congress initiated the Reciprocal Trade Agreements program. The Act giving the President the power to reduce American tariffs by as much as fifty per cent in return for reciprocal concessions by other nations, was a first step towards the elimination of those barriers which had so crippled international trade. As such, it was a major contribution to American recovery; while trade revived with the passing of depression, our trade with the sixteen agreement...
These agreements have proven their economic worth; the necessity for their renewal, however, is more than economic. As Secretary of State Cordell Hull has declared, the continuance of the program would demonstrate the sincere desire of the United States to participate in a post-war collective security system, to bear its just share of responsibility in world affairs. Facilitating the readjustment of this nation's economy to a peace-time basis, extension of the program will serve to assure our Allies that the United States will not repeat its mistake of 1919, will not ensure international anarchy by a policy...
Diplomatic Front. To the White House went British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, for the culmination of the extraordinarily cautious visit begun three weeks ago. For two hours and 15 minutes Franklin Roosevelt and Anthony Eden talked high diplomacy. They were flanked by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Ambassador John G. Winant, British Ambassador Viscount Halifax...
...turned what is normally a stodgy job into an exciting one. He has shown himself able to ingratiate himself with both labor and the Administration, longtime foes of the Chamber. He has just returned from a tour of South America (TIME, March 15), on which he endorsed the Hull reciprocal trade agreements and succeeded in selling many a South American the idea that free enterprise may be as important in Good Neighbor policy as big Government handouts...