Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Enrique Ruiz e Guiñazü, was sworn in. On his way back to Buenos Aires from Europe, where he was a longtime delegate to the League of Nations and later Ambassador to the Vatican, Dr. Ruiz had stopped in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Hardly had he taken office than a report from Montevideo, across the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, indicated that the toughest defense problem between the U.S. and Argentina would be solved...
...Washington the New York Times's Hallett Abend (who left Shanghai last October, after 14 years of service in the Far East) reported that Japanese Ambassador Nomura for nearly two months had been secretly trying to negotiate a U.S.Japanese neutrality and non-aggression pact with Secretary of State Hull...
...Admiral Nomura thought Cordell Hull would sell China or the East Indies down the river, in exchange for a promise from Japan, he did not know his man. Japan, as Mr. Abend expected, promptly denied that any such proposal had been made. Mr. Hull merely said stiffly that U.S. policy in the Far East remained exactly what it was in April 1940, when he told Japan that any change of status in The Netherlands East Indies would be "prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace and security...
...even if Mr. Hull would not listen to a Japanese proposition, the proposition, if made, was significant. It suggested that Japan might be in a mood to go a long way, even to sell out her Axis partners, if the U.S. would just let her liquidate her China venture with a little profit...
...Navy's newest battleship touched water last week. Twenty-three months after her keel was laid at Camden, N.J., four months ahead of contract schedule, the great hull of the U.S.S. South Dakota slid, smoking, down greased ways and smacked the Delaware River. In ordinary times, another year would pass before the hull became a ship with all her armor, engines, guns. Now the Navy hopes that New York Shipbuilding Corp. can have the South Dakota ready to commission next January...