Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Washington Cordell Hull, with Congress' formal approval, informed the Governments of Germany, Italy, France, Great Britain and The Netherlands that the U. S. would neither recognize nor acquiesce in the transfer of any territory in the Western Hemisphere from one non-American power to another. Did this mean that U. S. Marines would occupy St. Pierre, Miquelon, French Guiana, Devil's Island? The Chicago Daily News, whose publisher, Colonel Frank Knox, was appointed Secretary of the Navy two days later, proposed "One Way to Deal with French Possessions in the Caribbean." The proposal: take them over forthwith...
Last week, to the vexation of Cordell Hull, the U. S. legman in France, hottest news spot in the world last week, was sending no news whatever: he was practically incommunicado...
Last week, all Mr. Hull had heard from him-through Berlin-was that he was still there. For inside news from France, good, grey, softly swearing Mr. Hull was dependent on elegant, inexperienced Anthony J. Drexel Biddle Jr., Ambassador to Poland, who had followed his Polish post, like an outfielder chasing a liner over his head, from Warsaw to Paris, to Bordeaux...
...week's end Mr. Hull sent Mr. Biddle to London, where the Polish Government had finally come to earth...
First Targets. Airfields of the Coastal Command, oil stores along the Thames estuary, aircraft factories, the docks of London, Harwich and Hull were preliminary targets for Nazi night raiders. Incendiary bombs were showered down after demolition charges to start fires. But the impression was that last week's German raids were chiefly to familiarize squadron leaders with the course and to test Britain's defenses. When unrestricted air bombing begins, with destruction raining down by hundreds of tons, last week's raids by comparison will seem like flea bites...