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Then Ambassador Winant hurried on to meetings and interviews-with Secretary Hull, Harry Hopkins, Secretaries Stimson and Knox, many others-until 2 every morning...
Just where the U.S. stands on the ticklish question of relations with a French Government that is subservient to Hitler was made a lot clearer last week. Cordell Hull made it clear in two statements. The first of them was a warning. Said forthright Mr. Hull...
This exchange of statements sounded dangerously like the kind of talk that usually passes between countries before an outbreak of war. But at week's end Mr. Hull had news of a more soothing sort about U.S. relations with France. He sanctioned release of his letter to Senator James M. Mead of New York, designed to reassure those who thought the U.S. was about to seize the Caribbean island of Martinique. It showed that the U.S. had made a deal and the situation in Martinique was well in hand...
...Cordell Hull last week promised the Government of Free China that there would be no more extraterritoriality in China, from Shanghai came the perfect epitaph for Shanghai's plutocracy. It was not the work of a taipan but of brilliant, crotchety British Lawyer Ranald McDonald, an ornament of Shanghai's bar and bars. At the Council's April meeting he had shrilled a speech that might have been drafted either by Mr. Pickwick or an early Shanghai missionary...
...road companies have played 300 towns and cities, with return engagements in 150. On Broadway five actors have appeared in the leading role of bearded, slounging, Georgia backwoods Farmer Jeeter Lester: Henry Hull (233 times), James Barton (1,899), James Bell (305), Eddie Garr (120), Will Geer...