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Specifically he cited a report that Ambassador Bullitt had said fortnight ago in Bordeaux, France, that the U. S. stands with France "in war as in peace." Mr. Bullitt denied saying that, said the President. Mr. Roosevelt told the press to reread his and Secretary Hull's recent utterances. Next day Mr. Hull made public a letter, accepting Peru's invitation to the eighth Pan-American Conference (at Lima, December), saying...
...from Hyde Park went President Roosevelt at the beginning of last week. He found Secretary of Commerce Roper, just back from Europe, telling everyone not to have the jitters, but anxious reports were flowing in from U. S. diplomats abroad-Wilbur Carr in Prague, Hugh Wilson in Berlin, Bill Bullitt in Paris, Bill Phillips in Rome, Joe Kennedy in London. After listening to Mr. Kennedy at length on the transatlantic telephone, Secretary of State Hull marched out of his office, across the street to the White House, to give a verbatim account of what Prime Minister Chamberlain had just told...
...Nazi war defenses on the bank of the Rhine directly across from Alsace-Lorraine. Sir Neville Henderson, the British Ambassador to Germany, abruptly flew to London and the I. S. Ambassador to Germany, Hugh Wilson flew to Paris. Mr. Wilson conferred with U. S. Ambassador to France, William Christian Bullitt, and to join them U. S. Ambassador to Britain, Joseph Kennedy, broke off his vacation on the Riviera. Top-rank diplomats do not thus dash about unless urgent matters are at stake. Bonds of virtually all the Great Powers weakened in London. There fiscal authorities put aside their strained optimism...
...French courts, had spent nearly $300,000 trying to take Extase out of circulation. Last fall Hedy popped up on the Normandie under contract to Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, on landing stole some of the spotlight from such noted fellow voyagers as Danielle Darrieux, Fernand Gravet, Ambassador Bill Bullitt...
...heroes' burial place at the base of the Kremlin Wall. His mission was to investigate the grave of John Reed, U. S. Communist, journalist and poet. He found it intact. The first American to visit the grave since U. S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union William C. Bullitt placed a wreath on it in 1932, Corliss Lamont hoped to spike rumors that Reed's body had been removed and that Reed, because of his praise of Leon Trotsky in his Ten Days That Shook the World, had been posthumously proscribed by orthodox Stalinists...