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...Crying "appeasement," 35 prominent liberals, in a letter to Secretary Hull, denounced the release of food to France. Their argument: French industry is working for Hitler; Nazis seized 1,000,000 tons of French wheat to hold in Occupied France; food shipments will undermine the British blockade, lead to Nazi-prompted demands for U. S. feeding of other conquered lands...
...hundred years of faults and fumbling, was designed to make fast friends of 125,000,000 other Americans who had never before quite trusted us." Wertenbaker credits the complementary statesmanship of three very different Americans for this success-the hemispheric consciousness of President Roosevelt, the simple candor of Cordell Hull and the behind-the-scenes effectiveness of Sumner Welles. Says Author Wertenbaker: "The President is the idea man, Hull translates the ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima, Hull singlehandedly held the anti-hemispheric forces to a draw. How strong these forces are Wertenbaker makes clear...
Last week Secretary Hull informed the Italian Government that its request would be complied with. At the same time he requested that two Italian consular offices in the U. S. be closed. The two-far more important to Italy than Naples and Palermo were to the U. S.: Detroit (with jurisdiction over an Italian-American poplation of 98,048), Newark, N. J. (jurisdiction over 279,095). This retaliation called attention to the fact that Italy maintains 48 consular offices in continental U. S., to Britain's 24, Germany's 18. Said Newark's Vice-Consul Giulio Pascucci...
Through one long day the President held council with Secretaries Cordell Hull and Henry Stimson, Under Secretary of the Navy James Forrestal, General Marshall. Admiral Stark. The conference began in the morning, broke off for lunch and new business, began again, with Secretary Morgenthau and Harry Hopkins added, in the late afternoon. It went over, point by point, the final inventories of British war needs and available U. S. supplies-the long-range bombers, ships, field guns, machine guns, ammunition (estimated total cost: $500,000,000) that could be shipped as soon as the Lend-Lease Bill was signed. Beyond...
...chairman of this supergroup, corresponding to Bernard Baruch in the World War I effort of the U. S., should, by rank and weight, be the Secretary of State. But sainted Mr. Hull, full of years and ill health-and no New Dealer-is not to be it. The New Dealers, who admire Mr. Hull but not his views, will just have to await his retirement...