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...White House the President conferred daily with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Subject: whether to kill completely or merely dismember the Neutrality...
...minutes later, as the wax began to drip on the frosting, tall, solemn, saint-pale Cordell Hull entered. This was his 70th birthday, and the cake was for him. The newspapermen, beaming like apple-polishing schoolboys, made him a little speech. He thanked them and made a little speech in return: ''. . . It is in times like this that each of us needs desperately to hold fast to the faith that is in us, a faith in the destiny of free men and the supreme worth of Christian morality...
...Luftwaffe picked out Britain's east coast invasion ports, Aberdeen, Newcastle, Hull, Dover, Ramsgate. Under a cynical harvest moon bombers dropped high explosives and incendiaries, raked streets with cannon fire. For good measure they repeated the performance two nights later...
Birthdays. Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, 72; praying and spinning (see p. 28) at his Sevagram home. U.S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull...
...weeks Chungking has been worried by the Hull-Nomura conversations. Last month Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned U.S. Ambassador Clarence E. Gauss to his mountain cottage behind the Yangtze bluffs, asked for information. Ambassador Gauss, having none, could say nothing. Later, when President Roosevelt told the world that the U.S. Navy would sink any Nazi raider molesting shipping in the western Atlantic, Chinese radio operators strained at their earphones to hear one word about China or the Pacific. They heard none. Chungking censors sup pressed Washington dispatches reporting that the U.S. was considering Japanese claims to north and central China...