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Patient, white-haired Cordell Hull is like a cook trying to watch too many pots. Last week, while he was anxiously brooding over his simmering reciprocal trade treaties, another pot boiled over and blew the lid off. From the Associated Press came a new version of the first seizure of U. S. mails on transatlantic Clippers landing at Bermuda. According to the story, when Captain Charles A. Lorber refused to let the British censor board his plane, the censor whistled up a boatload of marines armed with rifles with fixed bayonets. There are times for heroes, times for diplomats. Forty...
Busy, patient Cordell Hull, who thinks his job at times is a little discouragin', went on trying to keep an eye on all his bubbling pots...
...Immensely gratified" Secretary of State Cordell Hull by voting (216 to 168) to extend until June 12, 1943, his authority to make reciprocal trade agreements; sent his bill unamended to the Senate, where the Hull trade program will have loyal Democratic support...
4.As Congress opened in January, Republicans and Conservatives Democrats began gunning for Secretary Hull's pet project...
Great copycats are the Japanese. Last July the U. S. formally denounced its trade treaty with Japan. Last week Japanese Foreign Minister Hachiro Arita, in language he might well have picked up from U. S. Secretary of State Cordell Hull, denounced the Japanese-Netherlands treaty of arbitration and conciliation. The U. S.-Japanese treaty expired six months after denunciation; so will the Japanese-Netherlands treaty...