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Good, grey Captain Cordell Hull last week waited for a tide, backed the ship of U.S. relations with Vichyfrance off the pink granite rocks of St. Pierre & Miquelon, where it had almost gone to pieces...
When a squadron of Free French corvettes sailed into the harbor of St. Pierre on Christmas Eve and took possession of the islands in the name of General Charles de Gaulle (TIME, Jan. 5), Cordell Hull was downright mad. He feared this Free French coup might undo all his work...
...State Department's discomfiture, De Gaulle's commander, Vice Admiral Emile Henri Muselier, held a plebiscite. The 4,321 inhabitants voted 56-to-1 to stick with the Free French. The plebiscite suggested a way out to Cordell Hull. Last week the State Department sent General de Gaulle a formal note, asking him to withdraw his ships and men while the people of St. Pierre & Miquelon hold another plebiscite. Cordell Hull was confident that the vote would go the same way. But the ugly shadow of coercion would be lifted-and Vichy left with no grounds for accusing...
With the uneasy prescience that comes with proximity and imminent danger, mindful of many an instance of bland Jap duplicity, the Dutch, instead of putting faith in the Japanese conferences with Cordell Hull in Washington, had got ready to fight...
Most Americans have not heard of the babassu nut since September 1936, when Alf Landon attacked this "jungle product" as an example of the riffraff being let into the country by Cordell Hull's reciprocal trade treaties. It grows in Brazil and its oil, used in margarine, competed with U.S. butter. Alf's "babassu speech" was a major milestone on his route to Kansas. But last week the babassu nut came into...