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Early Monday morning the President telephoned Cordell Hull, ill in his hotel suite. He called in Sumner Welles. To Under Secretary Welles he gave the task of drafting a statement that would make clear to the U.S. the implications of Hitler's move: the magnitude of Hitler's vision of his world, the scope of his dreams of conquest, the threat to the U.S. proved even by the German attack on Russia...
...Hull down in Pacific brine, squat, ugly U.S. freighters were last week carrying the second A.E.F.-men and materials for action in the Far East. Hundreds of young U.S. volunteers were en route to fight in China's skies (TIME, June 23). Advisers were going; men of every skill and walk of life were setting out, some for freedom's sake, some for adventure...
...Enrique Ruiz e Guiñazü, was sworn in. On his way back to Buenos Aires from Europe, where he was a longtime delegate to the League of Nations and later Ambassador to the Vatican, Dr. Ruiz had stopped in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Hardly had he taken office than a report from Montevideo, across the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, indicated that the toughest defense problem between the U.S. and Argentina would be solved...
...last week Ernest Martin Hopkins flew from Washington, where for five months he has been busy with U.S. defense, to Hanover, N.H. First thing "Hoppy" did was to strip to his shirt sleeves, make himself comfortable. Then he read a stack of telegrams-from Cordell Hull, Wendell Willkie, William S. Knudsen, John D. Rockefeller Jr., President Roosevelt, many another, in honor of his 25th anniversary as Dartmouth's president...
...Navy's newest battleship touched water last week. Twenty-three months after her keel was laid at Camden, N.J., four months ahead of contract schedule, the great hull of the U.S.S. South Dakota slid, smoking, down greased ways and smacked the Delaware River. In ordinary times, another year would pass before the hull became a ship with all her armor, engines, guns. Now the Navy hopes that New York Shipbuilding Corp. can have the South Dakota ready to commission next January...