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...slip from one room to another. Well within this labyrinth, in a small room under four yellow ceiling lights, sit the closemouthed, fast-moving, middle-aged men who operate the Morse key and teletype machines. Incoming messages are passed across the hall, decoded, routed to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and his assistants. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the coding and cable rooms are in constant telegraphic contact with 300-odd points throughout the world...
...fiscal '40 the number of messages jumped 77% over the year before. Since the invasion of the Low Countries they have averaged a million words a month. At night Secretary Hull carries reports home with him; the military and naval reports go to Secretaries Stimson and Knox. The three who receive this vast mass of up-to-the-minute information made it clear at the Lend-Lease hearings that they were in favor of positive U. S. action, at least to keep Britain from falling if possible...
Before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee filed Cabinet Members Stimson, Hull, Morgenthau, Knox, who had all spoken before the House committee two weeks before. To the Navy's Knox, Lindbergh's statement that a peace might be negotiated without a victory on either side was "wild fancy." "Peace without victory is possible only when . . . the belligerents feel that the peace terms will be faithfully carried out by all parties." Only hope for U. S. peace, said Knox, was the defeat of Germany. Otherwise, the U. S. would eventually have to fight for control of the seas. By means...
...Tokyo Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka took Cordell Hull to task for saying that the invasion of Manchuria was the first step in the destruction of world peace (TIME, Jan. 27). "The Manchurian affair," said talky, U. S.-educated Mr. Matsuoka (Oregon, '00), "was not the cause but the result of Anglo-Saxon interference in the Far East." As the Diet met to vote the Konoye Government unprecedented powers and an unprecedented $1,611,432,400 budget (not counting war expenses), the Foreign Minister found himself on his feet most of the time. He said everything he had ever said...
...American Senator!" In Madrid the Falangist newspaper Arriba seized upon the resolution as an indication of U. S. imperialism, observed that "neither Cuba nor the other Latin-American countries have any connection with the British and Protestant civilization of the United States." In Washington, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had to make the wholly unnecessary explanation that the resolution, although introduced by a member of the Democratic Party, was "completely contrary to the policy of the Administration...