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...biggest victory was the triumph of Secretary Hull's patient, unrelenting insistence on the rule of law and the possibility of an international order. Sometimes the speeches he has made have seemed, in view of Nazi triumphs, as old-fashioned as a torchlight parade. Last week his grave words on democratic rights and duties were vindicated, not only in terms of their expression of a cause, but in the practical sense of a measure of defense that the most hard-boiled patriot could subscribe...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull returned to Washington from Havana, richer by one convention, 21 resolutions, one recommendation and four declarations agreed on by the Havana Conference. He said: "The agreements have cleared the decks for effective action...
Warning. Secretary Hull prepared a statement on Havana's achievement that was anything but a hymn of victory. "The strong belief of the representatives of the twenty-one American nations at the recent Havana meeting was that the military and other sinister activities on the part of some nations in other large areas of the world present real possibilities of danger to the American Republics. ... It was, therefore, agreed that full and adequate preparations for continental defense could not be taken too soon...
With Latin courtesy and a touch of suppressed amusement the white-suited delegates of 20 American Republics last week solemnly gave to blue-jacketed U. S. Delegate Cordell Hull the honor of being the first to sign the Act they had adopted at Havana. Mr. Hull scrawled his name and hustled out of the chalk-white Capi-tolio, while his confreres leisurely went about the business of winding up the Americas' second conference of foreign ministers. The honor paid to the U. S. Secretary of State, who had drawn last place for precedence at the Conference, was not accorded...
Thus did Dr. Funk poke the U. S. economy in a vulnerable spot. A creditor nation ever since World War I, the U. S. vainly hoped the Smoot-Hawley and other tariffs would keep it that way, forgetting trade is a two-way street. Cordell Hull, knowing that, has long preached reciprocal commerce. World War II put an end for the present to his small successes...