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With sad patience, point by point, Cordell Hull composed a statement of how the U.S. official position had been forced to change. By continuing its present war against Russia, after regaining the territory it lost in 1939-40, Finland was thwarting the U.S. policy of aid to nations attacked by Hitler. The Finnish policy of fighting beside the Nazis would bring the war closer to the U.S.; for Finland it could end only in complete subjugation to Hitler. Therefore, unless Finland stopped its war against Russia, it could no longer count on U.S. friendship...
When he concluded. Cordell Hull looked like a man who had been forced to spank his son. Newsmen recalled the 1939 day when handsome Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procopé had been cheered to the rafters by a group of hard-boiled Washington reporters; the day President Roosevelt had read his moving statement assuring Finland of "the respect and warm regard of the people and the Government of the United States...
Reaction to the Hull statement from U.S. isolationists was loud and immediate. Herbert Hoover demanded to know if the U.S. had "lost all sense of human and moral proportions." Said Senator Robert A. Taft: "We will be deeply ashamed in all time to come...
...many a U.S. citizen, committed to the defeat of Hitler, concurred in Cordell Hull's decision, regarded it as one of the cruel, heart-sickening choices that must be made in time of crisis. Their thoughts were expressed by Herbert Elliston, author of 1940's Finland Fights: "My heart and my head are in conflict over Finland. But the times are too crucial to permit divided loyalties. . . . My head supports Mr. Hull's statement...
Across the yard is ranked another group of giants, massive of hull, with long, tapering, twin-ruddered tails. These are Consolidated's big boats-PB2Ys, four-en-gined big brothers of the two-engined PBYs. Like everything else Rube Fleet turns out, they are built to Fleet's most important hallmark: long range. These giants, designed for naval patrol, can travel 5,200 miles-possibly more-on a single load of gas. They can cruise at 170 m.p.h. on 45% of the power of their four Pratt & Whitney 1,200-h.p. engines...