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Cheerily independent, President Roosevelt queried Secretary Hull as to whether a ten-day recess of the Conference might do some good. By this time Conference stenographers and pages had been warned by the Secretariat that their jobs might not outlast the week. Mr. Hull made clear that a brief adjournment would not do. The Conference must either close up tight or go definitely on. The President, still without consulting his Brain Trust, began to draft in the White House a second message to the Conference. Amid his labors he called up Secretary Hull for an extra secret talk. In London...
...Secretary of State, a lawyer by trade and training, functions as an obedient attorney of the Stimson type. But planted deep within the silent Hull ego is an attachment to the principles at stake that is older and deeper than President Roosevelt's, and a tenacity which may outlast that of the White House should the latter weaken...
...when the Chicago gangsters were at the height of their power, requests were seriously made for military assistance against them. These requests were strongly criticized as equivalent to open collapse. The situation in New York, though less spectacular, is much the same. Moreover, the harmful psychological effect might long outlast the present depression. The federal government undoubtedly ought to make special appropriations for the crisis, but it ought not to make such appropriations to the cities...
...triumph after triumph. The final ballot at 3 a. m. was a smash vote of confidence-325 to 150. While no French cabinet is ever secure against upset by the fickle Deputies, M. Laval's series of victories produced predictions last week that his Government will outlast the present Chamber and conduct the French election due next spring...
Such an activity, knitting its fabric of understanding more firmly each year, will build a monument to outlast pageants, marble statues and bronze plaques. The monument will be erected in the minds and hearts of the two peoples. --The Christian Science Monitor...