Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department proposal that all nations join to guarantee world freedom of the news was approved by Secretary Hull, sent to the White House...
...high good humor, old Cordell Hull called in a bipartisan group of Congressmen to announce the news: Dumbarton Oaks was winding up its work. The U.S., Britain and Russia had seen eye-to-eye on the Great Blueprint for world organization. Minor details could wait. The important fact, said the Secretary of State, was that the Big Three, in peace as in war, have a common aim. The 39 delegates had nothing much left to do but wait for final nods from their respective Governments. Then the Chinese, who have been watching intently from just outside the Dumbarton Oaks...
Some time soon, Cordell Hull hinted, Big Four statesmen of a higher rank than the Dumbarton Oaks delegates will get together and approve this tentative outline. Early in 1945, the plan will be presented to the U.S. Senate in full-blown treaty form, and then at last the U.S. may hear the many-times postponed Great Debate...
...Administration last week attacked international cartels. The attack, well-staged and publicized, was opened by President Roosevelt before the Quebec conference began, with word that he had written to Secretary of State Cordell Hull "to keep an eye" on cartels. The problem of curbing them, said Mr. Roosevelt, is one of the No. 1 international problems which must be faced soon...
Anti-Nazi La Prensa, noting that Secretary Hull had made his charge in a press interview, deplored "diplomatic debate . . . outside normal procedure," observed that it exposed a statesman to "the danger of saying more than he would say in direct contacts...