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...Nazis reached Moscow, Congress was debating repeal or amendment of the Neutrality Act, just as it had been debating it two years ago when the war began. Senator Tom Connally was denouncing the Nazis on the torpedoing of the Kearny: "This murderous and foul crime must be avenged"; Secretary Hull was saying again that this act proved Hitler's plan for world domination. The President was still being cagey, and Alf Landon was still warning about collectivism in the New Deal. Martin Dies was still finding Communists in innumerable Government agencies...
Thus quietly ended the chapter of an other would-be strong man. In Panama the new Cabinet rescinded the ex-President's decree forbidding the arming of Panamanian merchant ships. In Washing ton Secretary of State Cordell Hull foot noted last fortnight's coup with a documented statement proving that the U.S. had not put so much as its little finger into Panama's political...
...Cosi fan tutte ("Thus do all women"-or more freely translated, The Way of All Flesh) prattled along at prices of $1.10 to $3.30. Its young, energetic performers were a new opera company, named the New Opera Company. Their impresario was a handsome socialite, Helen Huntington Astor Hull, ex-wife of Vincent Astor, now wife of Real-Estate Broker Lytle Hull-one of those great & good women who support the Metropolitan Opera in the style to which it is accustomed...
...State Department, and for stubborn old Secretary Hull, the treaty was a triumph. At every Pan American Conference since Mr. Hull's visit to Montevideo in 1933, Argentina has found it to her best interests not to follow through on hemisphere solidarity. What the State Department had almost despaired of doing, World...
Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of Naval Operations, followed Hull with a report on the Kearny attack...