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This stand was indicated by Secretary of State Cord ell Hull who advised Chairman Martin Dies he must make his won decision on whether to hold such meetings...
...foreign affairs that he had no time for political campaigning, was now so occupied with campaigning that he could spare only a brief interlude for the troubles of Greece. His limousine spirited him from Union Station to the White House. Even the press hardly noticed when Secretary of State Hull and Under Secretary Welles went to him, conferred, departed...
...guesses (see p. 35). Five destroyers and a seaplane tender slipped out of Key West; three others, attended by eleven seaplanes, followed them. At the same time 1,200 Air Corps officers and men arrived at San Juan, Puerto Rico, with a squadron of naval patrol planes. Diplomatically, Secretary Hull called attention to the presence of this fleet near Martinique by announcing that these were merely routine Navy maneuvers...
After several days' silence, Secretary of State Cordell Hull let it be known that U. S. naval vessels and patrol plane were engaging in "scheduled exercises" near Martinique (see p. 17). Soon afterward he got a reassuring answer from Petain. At Martinique are some no U. S.-made warplanes, aboard the French aircraft carrier Beam. Besides the eight destroyers of the U. S. patrol flotilla, several cruisers of the recently reorganized Atlantic Squadron are on a training cruise to the Guantanamo Naval Station in Cuba. At San Juan, Puerto Rico, are 12,000 officers and men of the Navy...
...State Department a queer situation obtained. Many a Roosevelt voter had in his heart cast half of his ballot for Secretary Cordell Hull. The Willkie campaign had courted Mr. Hull, would perhaps have asked him to stay on for a period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles...