The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-06-13

embargo was killed in the St
 It represents one part of an ext,cmely important chapter in recent American history, and illus trates how human relationships shape our foreign relations.
 It will be recalled that all of Secretary Hull's advisers orig inally were opposed to lifting the Spanish embargo. But after the deluge of protests began to swamp the State Department, and after so much support for the Nye Resolution poured in op Congress, many of these advisers changed their minds.
 These included Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, Judge Walton Moore, counselor of the State Department, Pierpont Mof- fat, chief of the European divi- sion, and several others.
 As result of this, it looked at one time as if the State De- partment would change its posi- ton and OK the Nye resolution with certain minor modified tions.
 But there was one career man who remained unmoved. He was JIMMY DUNN, SECRETARY HULL'S POLITICAL ADVISER AND CLOSEST FRIEND IN THE STATE DEPARTMENT.
 It Takes Charm
 Jimmy is a person of great charm but limited vision. Educated by private tutors, never subjected to the school of hard knocks, he married the Armour pack-meat- ing millions, and has dedicated his life to diplomacy. In this he has done very well, especially after the advent of Cordell Hull.
 When MT. Hull first became Secretary of the State he had few friends. Professor Moley, then Assistant Secretary of State, was his mortal enemy, and many members of the State Department were divided into two camps-the Hull camp and the Moley camp.
 Jimmy Dunn was one of those wise enough to join Hull. Furthermore, he accompanied MT. Hull on his famous trip to the London Economic Confer ence where Hull came to open grips with Moley. Again Jimmy accompanied Hull on his trip to Montevidea for the Seventh Pan-American ConferN1ce.
 So a sort of father and son re- lationslip developed between them. And their wives, who ac- companied them, also became close friends.
 Up The Career Ladder
 Cordell Hull is a loyal soul who does not forget his friends. And he remembered Jimmy Dunn. Be- fore Hulps advent, Jimmy had been protocol officer, in charge of seating guests at White House dinners and receiving silk-hatted diplomats at the Union Station. He first had been given this job by Calvin Coolidge, and continu- ing under Hoover he was on the social firing line during the famous "who comes first row" be- tween Alice Longworth and Dolly Gam.
 Thanks to HulPs friendship, Jimmy became one of the most important men in the State Department. He was catapulted into the vital job of Chief of the European Division, though his service in Europe had been insignificant. Later he was pro- noted to be Adviser on Political Relations, and as such, goes in and out of Hulls door like an animated shuttlecock.
 On warm afternoons, Hull knocks of work and goes with Jimmy to his home high up near the Naval Observatory. There on the spacious Dunn lawn, Cordell plays croquet. This is his favorite game, and living as he does in a hotel, he takes great delight in visiting the Dunn garden. Mrs. Hull frequently joins him and makes a foursome with the two men and Mrs. Dunn.
 Francois Friend
 All this is a necessary back ground to the Spanish embargo situation. For Jimmy Dunn has remained the State Departments most consistent advocate of Fran co and opponent of Loyalist Spain. Early in the Spanish revolution, Mrs. Dunn, a Catholic by con- version, made no secret of her ardent sympathy for Franco.
 So during late afternoons when the Nye Resolution was under consideration, Cordell Hull played on the Dunn croquet lawn and received political advice in regard to Spain.
 Added to this, MT. Hull also had some convictions of his own, and these convictions were in- fluenced in part by his increas- ing irritation at the press and at what he called the pressure groups" which came down