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...Buenos Aires, the night before the U. S. plan for a 21-Republic agreement was to be broached, Mr. Hull and his glacial, able, pompous Assistant Secretary, Sumner Welles, sat brooding in their rooms in Alvear Palace. Mr. Hull had decided that some other nation must present the U. S. plan, and do the "fronting" for it, as a mere matter of strategy. It was 10:30 p. m. Protocol-minded Mr. Welles insisted nothing could be done that night. But to his horror, his worried chief shoved his feet into carpet slippers, his pajama coat dangling over his trousers...
Simply on the basis of his achievements in international affairs, Cordell Hull has become, of all things, very nearly an idol of the very men who know how difficult his task has been-the two living former Secretaries of State. Henry L. Stimson (Hoover) believes Hull is one of the greatest of all Secretaries; dashes off letters to the New York Times every time Mr. Hull is criticized. Charles Evans Hughes (Harding & Coolidge) is known to believe implicitly in both Hull's ideals and capacities; even John Bassett Moore (many times Assistant Secretary of State and author...
...ever see Mr. Hull angry. One of the few is his wife, Rose Frances Witz Whitney Hull, who never knows whether the fierce "Chwist!"* that comes from the bathroom in the mornings at shaving time means he has cut his jugular or is thinking of some dastardly tariff provision. Mrs. Hull, descended from an old Jewish family of Staunton, Va., is an Episcopalian, is generally regarded as the best all-around wife in the Cabinet. The Hulls have no children...
...Cordell Hull is the biggest political paradox Washington has seen in many years. With his program in large part nullified by World War II, and under its first real gunfire in Congress, with his idealistic world in realistic ruins, he stands at the pinnacle of his career. The most conservative member of the Roosevelt Cabinet of New Dealers, he is its best-loved. He seems meek, but the Department dooryard is figuratively heaped with the bones of bolder, shaggier men who have tried to elbow him to one side...
...Hull's plates give him a slight lisp, often interfere with his "r's," which makes him say "mowality" and "twade" for morality and trade...