Word: hulling
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...secret to the U. S. State Department has been the penetration, economic and intellectual, of the German and Italian dictatorships in Latin America. Secretary Hull's reciprocal trade treaties with Latin America are a move to meet Europe on economic grounds: largely because of them U. S. trade increased from 40% to 90% in a year as compared with a 30% increase for Germany, 1½% for Italy. Except for Franklin Roosevelt's sensational selling tour in 1936, however, the U. S. has been too sensitive to the cry of imperialism at home and abroad to organize...
...something "we would perhaps prefer not to do." What Mr. Messersmith asked for and got was money to establish two new State Department cells, a Division of Cultural Relations and a Division of International Communications, both aimed straight at "relations with our Latin American republics." Last week Secretary Hull and Under-Secretary Welles announced that the Division of Cultural Relations will be launched forthwith. Duties: "The exchange of professors, teachers, and students . . . cooperation in the field of music, art, literature . . . international radio broadcasts . . . generally, the dissemination abroad of the representative intellectual and cultural work of the U. S." First year...
Declared Secretary Hull: "The taking of property without compensation is not expropriation. It is confiscation. It is no less confiscation because there may be an expressed intent to pay at some time in the future...
From 1915 to 1927, declared Mr. Hull, Mexico seized 161 "moderate sized" properties of U. S. citizens. "Not a single claim has been adjusted and none has been paid...
Therefore Mr. Hull requested that Mexico arbitrate (under the multilateral Pan-American arbitration treaty of 1929): 1) the question whether it has complied with international law ("It is the considered judgment, however, of the United States that the Government of Mexico has not complied"); 2) the amounts and terms by which Mexico will make good. In short, for Washington no more...