Word: departmental
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ever since being reluctantly forced to recognize Adolf Hitler's annexation of Austria last fortnight, the State Department has been pressed by liberal and racial groups to think up a practical way to express the U. S. Government's disapproval. Last week. Secretary Cordell Hull thought he had...
Whether or not Secretary Hull's idea of a refugee committee amounts to much more than a grandiose gesture, its reception last week was magnificent. In the U. S., it was unanimously praised by Jewish welfare groups, the Federal Council of Churches and the nation's press. Abroad...
Not to be outdone by Secretary Hull, Secretary of the Interior Harold Ickes last week also found means to rebuke Nazi Germany, also presumably with Presidential approval. Last month, the State Department approved shipment of 2,000,000 cu. ft. of helium gas, on which the U. S. has a...
Last fall Alaska's Congressional Delegate Anthony J. Dimond brought the controversy to a head by introducing a resolution boldly forbidding foreign vessels to fish anywhere on Alaska's 100-mile continental shelf. Grumpy Alaskans appeared at committee hearings on the bill to testify that Japanese boats had...
Boat. Having already promised to make "indemnification for all the losses" sustained when Japanese bombing planes sank the U. S. gunboat Panay, proceeding up the Yangtze with a convoy of three Standard Oil tankers last December 12, Japan last week received an itemized bill from U. S. Ambassador Joseph C...