Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Finnish charge d'affaires in the U.S., Alexander Thesleff, walked into the State Department at 11 a.m. one morning last week. Eleven minutes later Mr. Thesleff emerged, bearing a formal note, signed by Cordell Hull, ending diplomatic relations between the U.S. and Finland. Thus, in a manner as routine as dismissing an office boy, the U.S. ceased to have diplomatic relations with the ninth nation since World War II began,*and with a nation which for two decades had been a favorite of the U.S. public...
...British Ambassador to the U.S. went to the White House last week for his first visit since Minister Lyttelton made the provoking statement that the U.S. had provoked Japan into war-a statement that had drawn roars of wrath from Cordell Hull and other Administration stalwarts (TIME, July...
...lean, pallid Lord Halifax emerged, reporters ran up to find out what had happened in Round Two. In his best dash-it-all manner, Lord Halifax replied: "Oh, I forgot to mention that. Rather an oversight. Too bad, wasn't it?" Thus coolly, the British Ambassador dismissed Mr. Hull's rage as a teacup tempest, and the incident was closed...
...show of U.S.-British good will, with accent on reverse Lend-Lease. Several versions of the speech were cabled back and forth, checked down to the last word. Minister Lyttelton promptly issued a statement explaining that his remarks were intended only as a compliment, but purple-tempered old Cordell Hull was not appeased. "In all my career," said one State Department oldtimer, "I have never seen Mr. Hull...
When aging (72) Secretary of State Cordell Hull gave in to the Villarroel Government last week, Great Britain and 19 Latin American Governments promptly followed suit, for nearly all of them had been pressing the U.S. for this action for some months. The Argentines, who had happily recognized the Nazi-loaded Villarroel Government from the start, were presumably laughing up their diplomatic sleeves...