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Other members: Secretary of State Cordell Hull (see col. 2), Henry Morgenthau (Treasury), Henry L. Stimson (War), Frank Knox (Navy), Claude Wickard (Agriculture), Jesse H. Jones (Commerce) and the Attorney General of the United States (when that vacancy is filled). Henry Wallace will appoint an executive director to assist him, was expected to name 44-year-old Winfield William Riefler, New Deal economist, a professor at Princeton University since...
Unknown Gentleman. This week Cordell Hull returned to Washington to resume his duties. He had been absent, in ill health, six weeks. But his return should not change matters greatly. Grave, saintly Mr. Hull, never an expert at paper-shuffling, has long left the actual administration of the Department to his chief aide, Sumner Welles. And Cordell Hull may choose not to retire. But even if Welles never becomes Secretary, he will still hold his present power: through Presidential choice, his own ability, background and natural stamina, he is the chief administrative officer of U.S. foreign policy...
Stories of a jealous division between Messrs. Hull & Welles are untrue, based only on the many honest disputations natural between two strongwilled, hard-headed men of ideas. Actually, the two team up superbly under the President. In policy arguments Hull presents a view shaped by years of devotion to a single ideal, freedom of trade, plus a sharp eye for political weather. Welles presents a view based on diplomatic technique, on a cultural approach, and on the relation of the problem to the Hemisphere...
Working persistently, learning patience and the wiles of politics from old Cordell Hull, who is rich in guile, Welles has carefully sketched in the background for the practical operation of the Hemisphere in a friendly alliance, unified of purpose. He admits that many of the problems seem insoluble today; he does not admit they will always be insoluble. Before him he has the example of Mr. Hull, who worked with single mind and infinite patience for 25 years to get his reciprocal-trade principle accepted by the world, saw it overthrown five years later by Adolf Hitler, yet has never...
...sailing canoe is indigenous to Chesapeake Bay. Modeled after those used by Indians in Maryland waters, its hull is hewn out of three or five huge logs, spiked together. Long before the Civil War, Bay fishermen used log canoes for tending crab pots. During the war, they were used to run the blockade from the Eastern to Western shore. The watermen of St. Michaels took to racing one another, began to build lighter, faster racing boats...