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...Cordell Hull. Last week the prospects of Secretary of State Hull faded-ironically enough, in the moment of his biggest victory (see p. 18). Not one of the Western Democratic Senators who voted against the reciprocal trade agreements was picayune, stubborn, or merely stupid. They reflected the Western electorate's firm belief that the program hurts cattlemen, farmers, miners. No Democratic boss in the West believed last week that the party could win with Mr. Hull, news almost certainly received gratefully by unambitious Mr. Hull, 68. No one in the U. S. saw anything unPresidential about Mr. Hull except...
Near Lillesand, on Norway's southeast tip, a British sub sent two torpedoes crashing into the hull of the 5,261-ton German freighter Rio de Janeiro. The world knew she had slammed a troop transport when Norwegian fishermen reported picking up live and dead German soldiers in field uniform. The Rio de Janeiro had had aboard 500 soldiers, 80 horses. Where were they bound? Why? The overture began. Through the Skagerrak steamed a fleet of 125 German armed ships including one pocket battleship, either Admiral Scheer or Lutzow...
...latest burble of old Mr. Conant, explained that he believed his Attorney General had become "deeply disturbed" while witnessing the departure of Canadian officers (one of whom was his brother-in-law and another his private secretary) for service in World War II. In Washington Secretary of State Cordell Hull, who recently spanked U. S. Minister Cromwell, took Mr. Conant to the woodshed, declared that no nondescript utterances of minor officials abroad could influence U. S. foreign policy...
...last week U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull invited Mexican Ambassador Dr. Francisco Najera to his office and handed him a note. Dr. Najera read the note, then tucked it into a diplomatic pouch and sent it by airplane to Mexico City. There the Ministry of Foreign Affairs read it, made a careful copy for study, forwarded the original to the State of Oaxaca, where President Lázaro Cárdenas was on a tour of inspection. Soulful Señior Cárdenas read it, said nothing but that he would "answer at an opportune time...
...after all these sputterings were over, the Mexican political temperature cooled to a degree lower than it had enjoyed for many months. Whatever Mr. Hull's intention, his little note proved that: 1) all Mexico's political factions are united on oil; 2) Cárdenas' grip on the country is still strong. Mexico's political and economic unrest is heightened by the fact that after nearly six years of revolutionary social experimentation Lázaro Cárdenas must let go. On July 7, according to the Constitution, Mexico must elect a new President...