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...taken off and the submarines were approaching." In the embassy, Nomura, apparently ignorant of these events, could only shake his head and say: "It's in God's hands." Near by, Special Ambassador Kurusu was at work on Tokyo's long final note, which Secretary Hull an hour or two later would describe as false and infamous. While they waited to see the Secretary of State, Nomura glanced nervously at his watch (see cut p. 77). But if Mr. Moore is right, he only wanted to see the time of day, had no inkling that in Pearl...
Clarence Decatur Howe, Canada's amiable, U.S.-educated Minister of Munitions and Supply, was arrested, fined $10 and costs in Hull, Quebec. The charge: lighting his pipe during a local blackout...
Good, grey Cordell Hull had worked over his speech with the patience of a thorough man. He had dictated it to a battery of secretaries, revised and corrected it in his laborious, Victorian longhand. Now, sitting at his desk before twelve microphones, he carefully took his hornrimmed pince-nez from the breast pocket of his grey suit, carefully shook out the anchoring length of black ribbon, carefully spoke to the world about World...
Said Secretary Hull...
...street, who had been hoping for a realistic report on the war or a red-blooded pep talk, the good, grey Secretary's speech was also good and grey: another of Judge Hull's careful, cautious discussions of war aims and the post-war world. The rich, quiet, mauve-decade style was lost in his plodding delivery, the vaultlike acoustics of his office. Nevertheless Secretary Hull had made two great propositions clear...