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Secretary Cordell Hull gave the State Department view of Ryti's reelection. The U.S. was less interested in individuals than in Finland's foreign policy...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull said that U.S. Minister H. F. Arthur Schoenfeld would "probably" return to Helsinki (he came home recently to report, presumably on shenanigans like the reported toast of Finnish Government leaders to the successful Jap attack on Pearl Harbor). But the indications that the U.S. intended to continue its formal relations with the Finns did not mean that the Allies would or could keep Russia out of Finland. Britain is at war with Finland. British and American troops, even if they were on the Continent by the time the Russians moved on the Finnish frontier, would...
...explanations, State Secretary Cordell Hull chose to give no specific answers. When the criticism persisted, he finally burst into flaming Tennessee wrath...
...Hull is universally respected as an estimable gentleman of the highest purposes, but the impression-under which he seems to labor-that either he or the State Department has been appointed constitutional maiden aunt to the American people is erroneous...
...incredible accuracy of U.S. naval guns at Casablanca, which at 26 miles smashed the hull of the French battleship Jean Bart in two salvos, was a triumph for the electron tube. Declared Rear Admiral Stanford C. Hooper last week: "Radio directed and reported the destruction." Even at the very hour that war began the electron tube was the first to serve the nation. On Dec. 7, 1941 the electron tube caught the mutter of Japanese aircraft when they were 132 miles away from Pearl Harbor...