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...year frustration. In the 144 documented pages of its white paper, Peace and War, the State Department for the first time set forth the history of its dealings with the Imperial Government of Japan from the 1931 invasion of Manchuria down to the final hours that Cordell Hull spent with Ambassador Nomura and Emissary Kurusu while their countrymen made finally ready for Pearl Harbor...
...that informed men did not know, yet the cumulative effect of its pages was to make the efforts of U.S. diplomacy seem much more real and wise in retrospect than they had often seemed in prospect. Whoever had been caught napping on December 7, 1941, it was not Cordell Hull or ex-Ambassador Joseph C. Grew. Said the measured New York Times: "It is hard to see how our government could have done more, in honor, than it did to stave off the worldwide...
...washed dock that day a knot of tanned, relaxed sailors waited, the bandsmen with their instruments all askew. As the black hull of a submarine appeared across the way they came to attention. The 20-piece band thumped into the Beer Barrel Polka...
...Hell, I was fired!" exclaimed Charlotte Carr last week at reports that she had "resigned" after five years as director of Chicago's world-famed slum settlement, Hull House. For many reasons, Charlotte Carr's position at Hull House had become shaky. Some trustees and philanthropists in particular did not like her outspoken political activity, her affiliation with the Union for Democratic Action...
...Hull House's founder, Jane Addams, in the 19th Century spirit, believed in the social adjustment and education of the alien poor. Miss Carr thought that times had changed, that organization and political pressure were now the best ways for slum dwellers to better their...