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...great Elihu Root, he had not only had a lucrative law practice but had found time to be a colonel of artillery in World War I. Although he did not love the President's domestic issues, he approved his foreign policy. became a croquet-playing crony of Secretary Hull. But at his age, 72, it was dubious whether he had the stamina and vigor, for the tough, hard-driving job of arming the unarmed U. S. in record time. Unlike him, Frank Knox (66) came up the hard way: grocery clerk, gym teacher, sign painter, reporter to publisher...
...Pacific was to wage a rearguard action. Originator of that action was Herbert Hoover's Secretary of State Henry Lewis Stimson, who will not want to scuttle it now that he is recalled to the Cabinet (see p. 11). First Mr. Stimson and then his friend Cordell Hull had to use a strategy which was delicate, complex, in the circumstances, reasonably effective. They played as best they could on the enormous respect in which the Japanese people (but not the Japanese rulers) hold U. S. opinion. They denounced every stage of Japanese aggression in China...
...Washington Cordell Hull, with Congress' formal approval, informed the Governments of Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain and The Netherlands that the U. S. would neither recognize nor acquiesce in the transfer of any territory in the Western Hemisphere from one non-American power to another. Did this mean that U. S. Marines would occupy St. Pierre, Miquelon, French Guiana, Devil's Island? The Chicago Daily News, whose publisher, Colonel Frank Knox, was appointed Secretary of the Navy two days later, proposed "One Way to Deal with French Possessions in the Caribbean." The proposal: take them over forthwith...
Last week, to the vexation of Cordell Hull, the U. S. legman in France, hottest news spot in the world last week, was sending no news whatever: he was practically incommunicado...
Last week, all Mr. Hull had heard from him-through Berlin-was that he was still there. For inside news from France, good, grey, softly swearing Mr. Hull was dependent on elegant, inexperienced Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Ambassador to Poland, who had followed his Polish post, like an outfielder chasing a liner over his head, from Warsaw to Paris, to Bordeaux...