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...moment left its trade relations with Japan precisely as they had been, reserved the freedom to put on the clamps should Tokyo further injure U. S. sensibilities or rights in China. On the day when the trade treaty lapsed and this Damoclean policy went into effect, Secretary of State Hull was bedded with the sniffles. President Roosevelt was mum. U. S. scrap iron, oil, many another export essential to Nippon's Armies continued to move across the Pacific. Embargo-minded Senators were given to understand that it would be a good idea to hold off on bills curbing trade...
...role of 1940 politico, John Lewis first dusted off Indiana's Paul Vories McNutt, whom nobody had considered a likely bidder for C. I. O. support. To a gallery of undesirables which already included John Nance ("Evil Old Man") Garner, Boss Lewis also added Cordell Hull, with unkind references to his trade agreements...
Secretary of State Hull had protested in strongly measured language, got no satisfactory answer. To a note in which he conceded the right of the British to search parcel-post packages at Gibraltar but complained that U. S. ships had been discriminated against, subjected to unreasonable delay, he got no answer at all. Last week, banning the shipment of "articles or materials" by air mail, the U. S. indicated that it thereby removed any further excuse for a repetition of the Bermuda incident...
...make the resistance of Finland seem even more heroic than it had seemed before. Statesmanlike solution of Senator McNary of Oregon was gratefully accepted. His proposal: send the letter to both committees. That meant more delay. As the Committee on Banking and Currency prepared to hear Secretary of State Hull's opinion, and as Senator Brown prepared to revise his bill with Administration support, the Communist Daily Worker crowed: "Congressional leaders have gotten a little jittery...
...British authorities in Bermuda dragged sacks of mail from a transatlantic Clipper, began putting it through a thoroughgoing examination. When the Clipper took off for the Azores 24 hours later, more than a ton of mail was still in the hands of the censors. All Secretary of State Cordell Hull could think of to do about this was to hint that the Clippers might stop calling at Bermuda, fly directly from the U. S. to the Azores, as they did before war broke...