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Franklin Roosevelt has thus far avoided the first of Wilson's errors. He has bided his time, has left the debate to others: Vice President Henry A. Wallace, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Republican Harold E. Stassen, Republican Wendell Willkie. (One great difference between 1919 and 1943 is the number of men, of varying domestic views, who see eye to eye about the problems of the peace to come...
...made it clear to these gentlemen that in my opinion it was a fake and it was impossible. They asked that I present their message and plan to President Roosevelt and Mr. Hull, which I refused to do, but I did report it to the Department of State...
With these intriguing words, Falstaffian Dr. Guani pushed on to Washington, where he conferred with State Secretary Hull and other U.S. officials on problems of Uruguayan economy (principally the question of a $10,000,000 loan to finance Uruguayan public works). He left behind him in South America much speculation. The week before, Foreign Minister Gabriel Turbay of Colombia, likewise visiting Washington, had confirmed a report that his nation was negotiating with Russia for an exchange of diplomatic representatives. Venezuela and Ecuador were also considering the step. Russia, unrecognized in Latin America until last autumn (when Cuba and Mexico took...
...also a good year for the President's advisers. Secretary of State Cordell Hull set a new high for Roosevelt Cabinet members on July 23 by corralling 34% of the radio audience...
Karl Mundt's resolution will very probably never get out of committee; he proposed that the commission be appointed by Cordell Hull, Herbert Hoover and Congress. But it was significant for a broader reason: it was a definite break from the isolationist ranks. Said the man who once opposed any foreign intervention: "Neither our foreign policy nor our domestic economy can operate in a vacuum after the war. . . . We must make neither the mistake of fashioning international programs without regard to our American destiny, nor the error of focusing attention upon American problems without regard to their workability...