Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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December 7 Begins: Washington wire from Wilmott Ragsdale at the State Department, 1 p.m.-Japanese envoys asked for an appointment with Hull. . . . The book ends, 202 pages later, with the scene of Congress declaring war: "There were no tears. . . . There was no prayerful silence. . . . It was just the American Congress, its neck bowed, its back arched, and itself buckled down to the job of giving 'blood, sweat and tears' in any volume necessary to defeat the most audacious attack of the aggressors...
...experts on Far Eastern affairs, 2,500 America Firsters assembled in a meeting, 2,000 New Orleans citizens who assembled outside the Japanese consulate on St. Charles Avenue, 2,500 moviegoers in the Majestic Theater in Dallas, a score of reporters outside Secretary Hull's office, 20 correspondents in the pressroom of the White House...
...taken off and the submarines were approaching." In the embassy, Nomura, apparently ignorant of these events, could only shake his head and say: "It's in God's hands." Near by, Special Ambassador Kurusu was at work on Tokyo's long final note, which Secretary Hull an hour or two later would describe as false and infamous. While they waited to see the Secretary of State, Nomura glanced nervously at his watch (see cut p. 77). But if Mr. Moore is right, he only wanted to see the time of day, had no inkling that in Pearl...
Said Secretary Hull...
...street, who had been hoping for a realistic report on the war or a red-blooded pep talk, the good, grey Secretary's speech was also good and grey: another of Judge Hull's careful, cautious discussions of war aims and the post-war world. The rich, quiet, mauve-decade style was lost in his plodding delivery, the vaultlike acoustics of his office. Nevertheless Secretary Hull had made two great propositions clear...