Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...minutes Admiral Nomura worked his blandishments on the President, while Secretary of State Cordell Hull fingered his pince-nez ribbon. When the Admiral emerged, he flashed a smile at reporters, twirled a grey fedora in his brown hands. Then he stepped into his limousine...
Balding, brooding little Gaston Henry-Haye, Vichyfrench Ambassador to Washington, dropped in at the State Department last week-ostensibly to register a complaint with Secretary Cordell Hull about the way the free press of the U.S. treats his country's leaders; actually to stress again that Pétain's collaboration was not quite material cooperation...
Unkindest Cut. At the State Department last week Judge Hull reportedly gave Vichy's man a stern lecture, warned him that France must send no aid to Germany if she wants sympathy from the U.S. Specifically, Vichy was told not to let the Nazis move into Dakar. But if the U.S. decides it must take over Martinique, the French will be expected to surrender the island without resistance. (If they should resist, the U.S. will probably just ring the island with cruisers, wait for the French to surrender, without wasting either American or Vichyfrench lives in an attack...
Sincerest American tribute was that of Cordell Hull. This homespun, intensely American American said of the late Arthur Purvis: "A true Englishman...
...bitter days of early 1933, when Hoover left the White House, Stimson, then Secretary of State, was one of the members of the outgoing Cabinet who went to consult with the incoming President and Secretary of State. He remained on good terms with Cordell Hull thereafter. There was never any real break in U.S. foreign policy from Stimson's regime to Hull's regime, and it was ultimately Stimson's support of Roosevelt's foreign policy that drew him back into the Cabinet...