Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Only a few hours before, Secretary of State Cordell Hull had announced that the U.S. had, at last, invited Great Britain, Russia and China to discuss a definite blueprint for a world organization to keep the peace. A correspondent asked a question right down Mr. Roosevelt's alley: "Mr. President, when you were Assistant Secretary of the Navy you supported President Wilson on the League of Nations idea. How do you feel about that...
...said he, have an objective: perhaps they can reach a unanimity which would stop wars before they are started. In a sense, he added, the League of Nations had that very, very great purpose, but that got involved in American politics. That was why he and Secretary of State Hull had been working with Senators on the Foreign Relations Committee and a special committee from the House (see cut). So far, the President added, the consultations had been conducted on a very high plane of nonpartisanship...
...Plan. What, actually, did the President's plan propose? Neither the President nor Secretary Hull divulged anything more, but the news leaked. The Great Blueprint, it developed, had been started in February 1942, three months after Pearl Harbor. It had been finished, in its present working-draft form, in May 1943. The President had kept the plan secret until well after Teheran, until he judged the political weather was right...
This struck home. The following day Cordell Hull, shaking and disturbed, angrily told his press conference that the U.S. had, for 150 years, furthered the freedom of small nations and would continue to do so. He did not see any reason, he said, why the U.S. people had to be catechized on this every morning before breakfast...
...went, Honest John kept plugging, trying to smoke out Messrs. Roosevelt & Dewey. He gave his own opinion freely on every topic. And. although he got no credit, he won a major point during the week. He has long been on record against an international police force. When the Roosevelt-Hull blueprint was unveiled it contained no such provision...