Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...overshadowing in importance any of these far-flung details was the long-awaited tripartite conference in Moscow between the diplomatic chiefs of Russia, Britain and the U.S.. Age-brittle, tough Cordell Hull, wha will represent the U.S. at the meeting, will personalize the U.S. to Russians. And to Americans his long journey symbolizes the great lengths to which America has gone, is now going, and must yet go in the field of international relations-a long road whose...
This week the Secretary of State of the U.S. and the Foreign Minister of Great Britain are about to do business with Moscow. Cordell Hull, an honest, sincere and limited man from Tennessee, and Anthony Eden, a middle-class patrician from Britain, will go into conference with Viacheslav Molotov, a Russian revolutionary and politician who speaks for and only by permission of the toughest ruler in the modern world...
There are limits to what these men can actually accomplish. This conference is a preliminary: the positive accomplishments must be left to Franklin Roosevelt, Winston Churchill and Joseph Stalin, when & if they meet. But there is no limit to what Hull, Eden and Molotov can fail to accomplish. If they do fail-and they may -their failure will be reflected in the fires of World War II, and in that war's aftermath. If they succeed, Messrs. Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin will then have their historic chance to make World War II a victory for all the Allies...
...interest in Europe is real-witness World War II. But, in any conference concerned concretely with boundaries and "spheres of influence," that interest is hard to translate into the tough realities of Moscow. One of Cordell Hull's difficulties is that, while the American people clearly recognize an actual interest in Europe, they do not recognize an immediate interest in such matters as the proper borders between, for example, Russia and Poland. Hull & Co. in Russia therefore must find some meaningful and forceful language with which to assert America's interest in a peaceful postwar Europe...
...language. That language is, very simply, the language of power-the language that Joseph Stalin speaks and respects, the language in which Winston Churchill is at his best, a language which can be understood by the Americans at home who in the end must support or reject Mr. Hull...