Word: hulled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That noon good, grey Cordell Hull coolly and thoroughly denied the story as a fabrication. He was a little vague on the future status of Mr. Welles but clear that no such move was contemplated...
...Department No. 1 is presided over by stern, righteous, feudal old Cordell Hull, architect of the reciprocal trade agreements, believer in old-fashioned international law, a Cabinet officer who is politically unassailable...
...Messrs. Hull and Welles treat each other correctly, and even with a kind of friendliness at times. But mentally they are poles apart on most things. Welles is one of the swiftest, most businesslike administrators in the Government; Hull, perhaps because of his 24 years in Congress, is firm in his upright beliefs but lost in masses of papers and data that stack his desk...
Meanwhile the President goes on using a different kind of man for each kind of work. Instead of appointing a Secretary of State to do the job, and entrusting him with it, the President has stuck loyally to Hull as the chief, but has consistently by passed and circumvented him for ten years, using other men in and around the Department for special diplomatic chores. Examples: Raymond Moley, Brigadier General Patrick J. Hurley, William C. Bullitt, to mention only...
...Sumner Welles's position an analogy with Anthony Eden's predicament after Munich. The Post suggested that Mr. Welles resign, as did Mr. Eden, and "allow events and the people to vindicate him." The left-wing Nation offered as its remedy the dismissal of Mr. Hull, admitting in the next breath that such a thing could and would not take place...