Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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France. Winston Churchill accepted the Roosevelt-Hull definition of General Charles de Gaulle's status: his Government 1) will "exercise leadership in the matter of law and order in the liberated area of France" 2) will be under General Eisenhower's supervision until the fighting ends. But Churchill was more friendly than Washington had ever been, sounded genuinely glad when he announced that De Gaulle was coming to London. He gave De Gaulle and the French Empire much credit for tangible contributions to Allied victory, said that these services entitled the De Gaulle Government to "the fourth place...
...time he reached Chicago, Father Orlemanski had decided to turn the other cheek. The idea for the trip, he said, was his own. Last January he wrote Secretary of State Cordell Hull asking for a passport to visit Russia "to investigate for myself and study the Polish question." He wrote twice before he received a reply. Then he was referred to Manhattan's Russian consulate. To Father Orlemanski's intense surprise, the answer came not from Manhattan but from Moscow-"direct from Marshal Stalin personally inviting me to come to Russia...
...poll conducted by Look. Fifty-two newspaper correspondents picked the ten most and ten least useful officials in Washington, gave Madam Secretary the top spot on the "least useful" list. On the positive side they chose: General George C. Marshall (on the lists of 44 correspondents); Cordell Hull (on 33); Franklin Roosevelt (on only 32, but leading more lists - 24 - than anyone else...
...Secret Three. Created at the Moscow Conference (Hull, Eden, Molotov), the Advisory Commission began work last December in London's barnlike Lancaster House, overlooking flat, shady Green Park. The commissioners: Lincolnesque U.S. Ambassador John Gilbert Winant; cautious, deadpan Russian Ambassador Fedor Gusev; the British Foreign Office's lanky, tireless Sir William Strang...
...this forthrightness dispel the ambiguities in U.S. Secretary Cordell Hull's recent statement that Washington was disposed to let the Algiers Committee exercise leadership in France? Things actually were not that simple. Buck-passing Washington has passed the buck on the question of whom to deal with and not to deal with during and immediately after the invasion-that was still, said Washington, strictly General Dwight D. Eisenhower's business. Last week that overburdened officer had to turn from pre-invasion military chores, confer on French politics with General Joseph Pierre Koenig, doughty hero of Bir Hacheim...