Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when the U. S. condemned the seizure of Austria, Czecho-Slovakia, Poland, Norway, Denmark, Belgium, Holland, Luxembourg and France, the attack on Finland, the absorption of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Albania and Rumania. So it was when Secretary of State Cordell Hull warned Japan, when Holland and France fell, and when The Netherlands East Indies and Indo-China were endangered, that the U. S. would frown upon any change in the status quo in the Pacific...
...last week when the Japanese-French agreement on Indo-China forced U. S. action. There was nothing sensational about Secretary Hull's condemnation of the deal. Nor was it exceptional news when, two days later, Jesse Jones announced an Export-Import Bank loan of $25,000,000 to stabilize Chinese currency-for weeks Financier T. V. Soong has haunted Washington, working for a $100,000,000 loan. There was nothing out of the ordinary when President Roosevelt next decreed a complete embargo on shipments of scrap iron and steel to Japan. In the midst of these moves, whose only...
Tension. U. S. reaction was a little like that of a man winning a game of tennis who discovers that his opponent has dropped his racket and pulled out a gun. In Washington Secretary Hull stepped into his press conference, leaned on the back of his chair, and asked, "Are there any questions this morning, gentlemen?" From his pocket he extracted his familiar pince-nez with the heavy black ribbon, put them on, and read a prepared statement: "The reported alliance does not . . . substantially alter a situation which has existed for several years. Announcement of the alliance merely makes clear...
...Most of the well informed people whom I met had fatalistic attitude that whatever happens depends on Washington," he said in an interview yesterday. He believes that to avoid the serious civil war which would result if the U. S. supported Almazan, Secretary of State Hull has indicated a slight preference for Camacho, whose party now seems predominant...
Sore points with the Japanese are Secretary of State Cordell Hull's warning to Japan to preserve the status quo in French Indo-China and the U. S. embargo on export of oil and scrap iron to Japan. Behind these moves is U. S. opposition to Japanese expansion southward, where lie vital rubber...