Evening star., 1940-12-29

pr1Vabe or personal feelings may DC
makes them welcome by her delight
full hospitality.
The diplomatic breakfast on New
Year Day which for many years was
given by the Secretary of State In
honor of the diplomatic corps. and
in more recent years given at the
beautiful Pan-American Building
was abandoned by the Secretary and
Mrs. Hull during the depression and
for various reasons has not been
renewed.
"Our Office" Adjoins
Reception-Livin Room.
Next to the reception-iving room
in the Hull's hotel apartment is a
small room with gray walls, mist
green hangings and gray rug, which
Mrs. Hull calls "our Office" There
are two desks in this room and the
walls are lined with her favorite
pictures of the Secretary, intimate
friends and distinguished interna-
tional statesmen with whom she
and her husband have had delight
full meetings. She is her own pri-
vate secretary and Mr.. Hull fire.
uuently works there in the evening
on big portfolio of papers he brings
home from the department. Mrs.
Hull laughingly says she has moth
ing to do with public or foreign
relations-except socially-but when
1t comes to domestic relations-es-
pecially in war times, she must keep
the home fires burning and after a
long and trying days work at his
Office see that her husband has
quiet and honey comforts.
Took Active Part in
Wilson Memorial Drive.
During the past two years at her
desk in "our office" Mrs. Hull has
written in long hand and signed
hundreds of letters for personal ap-
peals for funds for the President
Wilson memorial. She said she
feared that, like so many pleas for
charity and other funds, typewrit-
ten appeals might be thrown in the
waste basket, while personal letters
would be more effective.
When the Woodrow Wilson Birth
place Foundation, Inc, was founded,
she as a native of Staunton, Va,
where the late President was also
born, and where the old Presbyter-
ian manse in which his father lived
is located, was prevailed upon to
become president of the foundation
when told that she would not have
any of the routine work to do.
Mrs. Hull, however. became in
tensely interested in the work and
confesses that if she has hobby
it is making a living memorial to
President Wilson, his aims ideals
and the purposes for which he
worked and died.
Now that the purchase and res
toration of the old manse is ac-
complished, the next step will be
furnishing it as it was when the
Wilson's lived there, which would be
in the early or Victorian period.
One of Mrs. Hull's most cherished
wishes is to have the old library Or
study a living memorial Of the
writings of Mr.. Wilson. The VOL
luminous papers of woodrow Wilson,
however, last year were presented
to the Library of Congress by his
widow. These papers comprised
first-hand material covering the
time before and during the first
World War and also the former
Presidents own memoranda of his
bitter and losing fight for the
League of Nations.
Mrs. Hull Looks Forward
To Receiving Lord Halifax.
Mrs. Hull is looking forward to
receiving Lord Halifax, the new
British Ambassador, who succeeds
the late Lord Lothian, and who was
recent foreign secretary in the
Churchill cabinet. His eXcellency
was reported to have been one OF
the Cliveden set in which the late
Lord Lothian also figured. Lady
Nancy Astor says there is no such
thing as a "Cliveden set," and If
the American born first woman
member of the British Parliament
was ever in favor of appeasement
for anything or anybody. she would
have to forego the Southern spirit
in which she was reared.
Cliveden, the regal country seat
near London which was bought by
the first Lord Astor, who became a
naturalized Briton in 1899 is now
partly occupied by burial ground
for both American and English
soldiers who fell in the first World
War.