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Scenes. All this Authors Alsop & Kintner tell in a series of scenes whose detail is almost eyewitness in effect: the President undressing for bed, tossing remarks over his shoulder to Berle in the next room; Hull and Welles in an early-morning call at the White House, the President propped against pillows, amid a litter of breakfast tray, morning papers, cables from abroad, wearing "a peculiar small cape of blue flannel trimmed and monogrammed with red braid, like an expensive summer horse-blanket...
...Over Hull's Shoulder. The week's diplomatic news made significant footnotes to American White Paper. When Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita made a verbal pass at The Netherlands East Indies, it was significant that Cordell Hull gravely, politely, promptly warned Japan against intervention-warned beforehand instead of protesting afterwards, as the U. S. has often done...
...Hitler will invade The Netherlands before the end of June, further expect that Japan will seize the moment to move in on the Indies. It would therefore not be surprising if the tag end of U. S. Fleet maneuvers now in progress found a squadron near Manila. Well Cordell Hull knows that Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi, visiting him, sees over Mr. Hull's shoulder the U. S. Pacific Fleet. But it is still a secret whether Mr. Hull himself sees the Fleet when he looks around...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in turn, speaking to no one in particular-i.e., the press-declared: "Intervention in the domestic affairs of The Netherlands Indies or any alteration of their status quo by other than peaceful processes would be prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace and security not only in the region of The Netherlands Indies, but in the entire Pacific area...
...Hull's warning turns out to be just a bluff, and few observers thought it was more, Japan is quite likely some day to indulge her habit of starting trouble when the cops are looking the other way. If she does, the cop with the reddest face will be the U. S.-since everyone knows that the Western World considers the Pacific his beat...