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...returned to the White House. Washington headquarters of the Democratic National Committee shifted to the White House switchboard its private line to Chicago. The President called Jim Farley, extended his good wishes for the convention. "How are things going?" he asked. "Okay," said Jim Farley. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, preparing to leave for Havana, stopped to lunch with the President. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early: "Probably nobody will believe it, but they're going to talk about the Havana Conference...
...suggestion I am about to make," wrote Mr. Boyd, "may at first glance seem inexpedient, but I believe it has real merit and I urge you to give it very serious consideration. The suggestion is that the Democratic National Ticket in 1940 should be: For President-Cordell Hull; for Vice President-Franklin D. Roosevelt...
...Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull, wearing his usual air of fierce weariness, told his press conference how, after the fall of the Low Countries and France, the U. S. sent to Germany, as to all belligerents, a warning that the U. S. would not permit territory in the Western Hemisphere to be transferred from one non-American power to another. In other words, the Caribbean and South American colonies of France, The Netherlands, Britain, could not be seized even if those countries were conquered...
...useful purpose, said Mr. Hull, could be served by continuing the discussion. Said Steve Early for the President at Hyde Park: the U. S. has no intention of interfering in territorial adjustments in Europe or Asia, but "the Government of the U. S. wants to see, and thinks there should be an application of the Monroe Doctrine in Europe and Asia similar to its application of the Monroe Doctrine in this hemisphere...
There is also offered a supplementary means of payment. Its ideological basis: Germany's belief in the Hull idea of freer trade. To implement it, the U. S. has only to reduce her prohibitive tariffs, let German manufacturers in as payment for the many U. S. crops and products Germany wants...