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Secretary Hull restated the objectives of the Administration's foreign policy: 1) peace and security for the U. S. with advocacy of peace, and limitation and reduction of armament as universal international objectives; 2) support for law, order, justice and morality and the principle of nonintervention; 3) restoration and cultivation of sound economic methods and relations, based on equality of treatment; 4) development in the promotion of these objectives, of the fullest practicable measure of international cooperation; 5) promotion of the security, solidarity and general welfare of the Western Hemisphere...
...Hull's voice was deep with conviction as he went along, giving a simple out line of the course of world events since 1931-the aggressions of Japan, Italy, Germany. Said Mr. Hull: "Mankind is today face to face, not with regional wars or isolated conflicts, but with an organized, ruthless and implacable movement of steadily expanding conquest...
...grey curls; Hamilton Fish of Garrison, N. Y., 52, rangy, headline-hungry, with a brazen voice and a longtime suspicion of England; George Holden Tinkham of Boston, Mass., 70, bald, potbellied, with jowl-whiskers like a Russian droshky driver. Mr. Fish, veteran of many a skirmish with old Mr. Hull, and knowing that the Secretary's innocent, suffering face masks a hot-pincers talent of repartee, gave up the witness swiftly, but prodded furious, bulbous Tinkham in to violent questioning. Hull seemed relaxed, as he politely parried Tinkham's assertions. Typical Tinkham "question": "You say all international...
Tinkham: "We're supposed to be neutral." Hull: "We aren't going to let [neutrality] chloroform us into inactivity." Tinkham: "But they were little countries and we have 3,000 miles of sea between us, and a fine Navy." Hull: "I disapprove of your complacency...
...Hull had appeared alone. To the stand after lunch went Treasury Secretary Henry Morgenthau Jr., flanked by seven aides. His testimony: revelation, for the first time in history, of the confidential balance sheet of another nation's finances. Points: 1) all British assets quickly convertible into dollars had been spent or obligated before Jan. 1, 1941; 2) "slow assets," not quickly convertible, had a nominal value of ?3,868,000,000, could not be liquidated in time to obviate the need for U. S. aid; 3) the British hold practically no gold (only...