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...Administration's No. 1 Cabinet officer showed up as usual at his office, but he complained: "I'm sick and I know it." Next day he stayed home. For the past five weeks, with an occasional bedside visit from Franklin Roosevelt, good, grey Cordell Hull has lain abed in the Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Md., under observation and treatment for a throat ailment and exhaustion. This week, reluctantly and on his doctor's advice, Cordell Hull resigned as Secretary of State...
...eventful years. His death came as no surprise. On May 12, while on his way to receive the credentials of Canada's first Minister to China, venerable Lin Sen suffered a stroke. Since then, while Buddhists, Mohammedans and Christians alike prayed for his recovery, the gentle greybeard had lain half-paralyzed...
...London, the Polish Government in Exile had to replace the almost irreplaceable General Sikorski. Formation of the new Government became a matter of political intrigue. Cabled New York Timesman Raymond Daniell: "General Sikorski's death . . . has precipitated a political feud that might have lain dormant until the Polish Government had returned home after the Allied victory. It is the old struggle between the Left and Right, latent in the political alignments of almost all refugee Governments here...
...have struck at the Jap within sight of Fujiyama and lain doggo for hours while the enemy's "cans" hunted and depth-charged, who have surfaced at night so close to the Japs that Tokyo Rose* came on the radio like a performer on a local station at home, have no need to lie. The truth of their work is enough...
...have lain in shell holes watching the skies for bomber and fighter plane help which failed to appear feel pretty bitter about the whole thing. In the Army, acts less treasonable than this are punishable with death before a firing squad...