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...hour after the President's announcement, Secretary Hull made a homespun statement of his own. Because of the war, he said, and its effects on neutrals, the U. S. had begun informal diplomatic conversations with neutral governments. He made it clear that these conversations involved no world plan for peace. But they were preliminary inquiries looking toward the establishment of a sound inter national economic system, a world-wide reduction of arms. Their chief aim: to provide economic stability after...
...first act began last September, when James' organization began its Sunday afternoon "discussion groups". The Yankee-American Action quickly evolved upon a sickeningly fascist pattern. Attracting members with the homespun slogan of "Yankee traditions", the YAA was soon busy disseminating thinly disguised anti-Catholic propaganda. Once they were in, Mr. James gave them arm bands, had them buy red shirts, and revealed to them the deeper aim of the organization: founding a totalitarian, one-party state in which Catholics would have no part. Pamphlets were publicly distributed, for example, in which James railed against "this Mick pestilence" and said, "Rome...
Billy Hull once said: "Cord was always just like a grown man, from the time he could walk." Nade had the best memory but Cord was the best speaker. Once he wrote a powerful essay titled "Clothes Don't Make the Man," delivered it wearing a blue homespun work shirt. But his one real passion seemed to be politics, which he followed with the same sort of scorecard interest with which schoolboys now follow baseball...
...first, in the glittering company of Raymond Moley and the other brilliant original New Dealers, Mr. Hull's homespun generalities and international outlook seemed dreamy idealism. But over the years Cordell Hull showed staying-power, and gradually Franklin Roosevelt became a Hull man, carrying out Hull doctrines, whereas nowhere was there evidence that Mr. Hull was a New Dealer. "I just tends to ma inte'national affairs," he always said when chums tried to needle him into criticisms of the gyrating show around...
Creaky-Greeky Raymond Duncan (expatriate Paris-dwelling brother of the late Isadora Duncan), who so admires Attic culture that he wears a homespun chlamys (tunic) and sandals in all weather and all company, announced to Paris' Left Bank that he gave not one Hellenic hoot for France's war, said he would carry on as usual his courses in antique cloth-weaving, basketmaking, and rhythmics...