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Though their riveted M35 sustained some shell hits, no rivets bounced about inside. Main fault in the tanks: an incendiary bullet, stuck in the pencil-thin crevice between the revolving turret and hull, froze the turret tight. The tankers unfroze the turret with an acetylene torch. (This defect has been corrected in the newer M-45, which have a collar over the crevice...
...November 1941, Cordell Hull strongly warned Army & Navy chiefs that the Far Eastern crisis had outstripped the bounds of diplomacy. Two weeks before Pearl Harbor he suggested that all hands in the Pacific be alert against a big-scale attack that would "stampede the hell out of our scattered forces...
...same four-motored Russian bomber which had carried Mr. Smith to Britain rolled to a stop on a Washington, D.C. airport. Mr. Brown descended from the plane and presently motored to the White House. For several days he labored with President Roosevelt and Secretary of State Hull. Under Secretary Welles pronounced him "charming." Molotov boarded his bomber again and flew back to London and Moscow. As soon as he reached home the great secret was out. Molotov's accomplishments...
...these agreements U.S. businessmen could see a post-war world in which the four strongest nations are pledged to the economic principles old Cordell Hull has long preached as the only true foundations for lasting international peace...
Nonetheless, the Russian Air Force stepped up bombings of Finnish ports, where Nazi reinforcements were pouring in. In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, recalling that U.S. Lend-Lease supplies are now rolling toward the Russian front over the Murmansk railroad, gave Finland a thin-lipped warning. "We are watching the situation," he said, "most closely...