Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler will invade The Netherlands before the end of June, further expect that Japan will seize the moment to move in on the Indies. It would therefore not be surprising if the tag end of U. S. Fleet maneuvers now in progress found a squadron near Manila. Well Cordell Hull knows that Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi, visiting him, sees over Mr. Hull's shoulder the U. S. Pacific Fleet. But it is still a secret whether Mr. Hull himself sees the Fleet when he looks around...
Secretary of State Cordell Hull, in turn, speaking to no one in particular-i.e., the press-declared: "Intervention in the domestic affairs of The Netherlands Indies or any alteration of their status quo by other than peaceful processes would be prejudicial to the cause of stability, peace and security not only in the region of The Netherlands Indies, but in the entire Pacific area...
...Hull's warning turns out to be just a bluff, and few observers thought it was more, Japan is quite likely some day to indulge her habit of starting trouble when the cops are looking the other way. If she does, the cop with the reddest face will be the U. S.-since everyone knows that the Western World considers the Pacific his beat...
...Blaine, U. S. Secretary of State, opened the First International Conference of the American States in Washington. One recommendation made by this conference: an Inter-American Bank, to be owned cooperatively by the U. S. and other American Republics, to finance hemisphere trade. Last week, 50 years later, Cordell Hull's State Department had lined up five Latin American Republics (Colombia, Mexico, Nicaragua, Brazil, Bolivia) as its partners in an Inter-American Bank, to be set up as soon as Congress passes the necessary laws...
...contemporaries of Cordell Hull the problem is more urgent than it was to James G. Blaine's. To Latin America, World War II has meant the loss of roughly $17,000,000 a month to Germany alone, has jeopardized another $35,000,000 a month in exports to the Allies, nearly equivalent losses of imports from Europe. To the U. S., Latin America is a great potential market for industrial products, a great potential source of needed raw materials (such as rubber, tin) whose usual sources (British Malaya, Dutch...