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...pastry masterpiece was placed at one end of the long mahogany table in the State Department's press-conference room, beneath the starched-collar portraits of former Secretaries of State. In the long, chill, formal room, it looked as out of place as a round of beers. At noon sharp the 21 candles (for the 21 American Republics) were...
This fanfareless meeting did not mean that the Administration was chilly to Lord Halifax. It did mean that celebrity-loving citizens of the U.S. have found his Lordship a chill, unbending, colorless personality. The qualities which appeal most to his own countrymen-diffidence, reserve, intellectual honesty-make no impression on the U.S. masses...
...assume her place and her responsibilities in a war world, and she must lay firm foundations now for a League with teeth in it, as well as for true democracy at home and abroad. The idealistic phrases of World War I may mock us now. But they should not chill the hearts that hope for a more lasting society of nations. The American people must become united on peace aims as well as war strategy, and there is no time to lose...
Boos & Catcalls. Congressmen, somewhat closer to business facts than Henry Morgenthau, reacted to the Secretary's proposal with cries of rage or the chill of absolute indifference. Nearly every Representative could point to at least one humming business in his own district which would be completely ruined if all returns over 6% of its puny original stake went to the Government. Democrats and Republicans alike were indignant. Everyone, in & out of Congress, agreed that no decent business in 1941 wants to make a fortune out of World War II, but neither did the U.S. want to make its ablest...
...then the chill set in. He was met at Washington by no one of first importance, and the presence of Counselor of the German Embassy Dr. Hans Thomsen at Union Station did not help. That very day (it was the 2,601st anniversary of the Japanese Empire) President Roosevelt, in a press conference, said that war with Japan would not affect deliveries to Great Britain. Admiral Nomura's first call on Secretary of State Cordell Hull lasted only four minutes; it was an all-time quickie. President Roosevelt was a little more cordial. The Admiral told reporters that...