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...Cordell Hull...
...cold and partly cloudy in Washington last week when President Roosevelt returned from Warm Springs. Rested after his quietest week since the war began, he stepped off the train to be greeted by a sober-visaged Secretary of State Cordell Hull, flanked by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary of War Louis Johnson. The President's quietest week was over, ended by bombs falling on Helsinki by Russia's invasion of Finland...
Cold and clear was the U. S. reaction to Russia's move. At the White House the President conferred with Statesmen Hull and Welles, spent 45 minutes with Finnish Minister Hjalmar Procope. All day reports of Russian bombings of Helsinki came to the State Department from the U.S. Minister to Finland. At 6 p.m. Mr. Hull got word that in a raid of 15 planes, bombs had fallen near the U. S. legation, that buildings within three blocks were in flames...
Sweepers. Wooden ships returned to their own. A "splinter fleet" of fishing smacks from ports like Grimsby and Hull was equipped with extra-heavy bottom-trawling nets, or with heavy chains to drag between them well astern...
Among the Eliot squad seeing action were Chute, Ossaua, T. Miller, Hull, A. Miller, and Henderson. On the Dudley list were: Regan, White, Durant, Harris, Clay, MacDonald, Santesuosso, and Hawthorne...