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...problems which furrow the brow of patient Secretary of State Cordell Hull is what to do about official Nazi representatives in the U. S. The activities of two underlings have been so brazen that he has had to boot them out.* But Mr. Hull has to be careful when he kicks, lest he break the already taut cord of diplomatic relations with Hitler. U. S. representatives would then in turn be booted out of Germany, and the U. S. be deprived of one of its few remaining listening posts in Europe. The zeal of the Dies Committee has not made...
Although the President conferred with Secretary Hull, with Admiral Richardson, Commander in Chief of the U. S. Fleet, with C. V. Whitney, chairman of the board of Pan American Airways (just returned from an air tour of the Pacific), the tension in the East was not as great as it sounded in the press. The Japanese hastily piped down their war talk and one-third of the U. S. Fleet idled in California harbors, giving long overdue shore leave to its sailors. But the fundamental crisis in the East was building up to a decision that could not be indefinitely...
...Shirley, Tenn., a slight, brown-eyed farm boy bade his widowed mother, Postmistress Daily Hull, goodby, hitchhiked 90 miles to Knoxville to enlist in the U. S. Army. Told because he was only 20 that he needed his parent's consent, he hitchhiked home, returned to say: "Mother didn't exactly want me to sign up, but she didn't make much of a fuss. Most every family in our [Fentress] county has had one volunteer. . . ." Then taken by a grinning Army sergeant to Fort McPherson, Ga., Private Elbert Lee Hull was sworn into the Army, explained...
...Schiaparelli and Smoker Arnold were not the only bigwigs at Boston's Conference. For twelve years it has studded its two-day conclave programs with big names, from Cordell Hull to Elizabeth Arden. This year it lined up Sir Louis Beale of the British Purchasing Commission, Missouri's Governor Lloyd C. Stark, Akron's Harvey S. Firestone Jr., Vogue's Editor Edna Woolman Chase, many another. Unlike the ivied theorists of college round tables who know what to do but are in no position to do it, Conference experts have facts & figures at practiced fingertips...
...Japan threatened more Far Eastern colonies, Secretary Hull: 1. Put off Philippine independence-promised this January-until 1945. 2. Officially urged U. S. citizens to leave the Orient. 3. Urged Congress to rush Guam fortifications. 4. Sent 6 U. S. destroyers into the East China Sea. 5. Publicly consulted J. Edgar Hoover on the 5th Column problem in Hawaii...