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...optimism (TIME, May 25) had rolled up like a giant wave. The news from Washington, gusty and robust, kicked it higher. The Pacific War Council said that even in the Far East the situation was "not bad." Even conservative Cordell Hull told newsmen that victory looked closer...
Deliberately or not, President Roosevelt left Cordell Hull out of his calculations when he fixed up the Board of Economic Warfare with a new set of brass buttons and final authority in international economic matters (TIME, April 27). Some newspapers concluded that BEW now had superseded the State Department in international affairs...
Last week Judge Hull, tightlipped, recently back from vacation, dropped in at the White House. The next day Mr. Roosevelt had a hasty amendment to make. It had all been a misunderstanding. Somebody had erred...
...order, Mr. Roosevelt said last week, would be "clarified." All negotiations would be carried on through State. Judge Hull was still boss of all U.S. foreign relations, including trade. BEW would simply handle the financial and technical ends of procurement...
...Roosevelt's amendments might have appeased Mr. Hull, but they were no clarification. No one knew exactly where one's authority left off and the other's began. Mr. Roosevelt had, however, accomplished one thing: prodded the slowpoke State Department into acting with more git-up-&-git. On this basis Messrs. Wallace, Perkins and their BEW still had no cause to grieve...