The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1943-08-23
Observations
Hull Picked as
State Department
Winner
BY Helen Essary

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had saved up her ration points for
tn big momenD. Talk and back
ia. of the record gossip. On
the record opinion. The guests-an
ambassador an editor, a WIPE
member an economist and a simple
citizen
Here summarized is a taste of
the conversation:
Secretary Of state Cordell Hull
will triumph over Assistant Secre.
tary Sumner Wells in that long
standing interdepartmental quar-
rel.
Secretary Hull or Judge Hull, as
bis old-time friends call him, is a
stout-hearted feudist from the hills
Of Tennessee. Down where the
Judge comes from. folks "bide their
time and then they strike.
Mr.. Hull has been hiding his time
against Mr.. Wells for years now
In Claiborne County where Mr..
Hull was raised they also believe
give the enemy enough rope and
let him hang himself
Secretary Hull. If you look back
over his career, has followed Ten
nessee customs ever since he came
70 Washington. Remember how he
"bided his time" with Assistant
Secretary Raymond Moley. when
Mr.. Moley was acting like a Num-
Der One Boy at the London econo-
mic conference.
Who was it who left the State
Department when the conference
was over? Not Mr.. Hull.
Assistant Secretary Sumner
Wells may move on to the post of
rowing ambassador Some say he
will. Or he may be minister to
Canada. Again, he may retire from
the State Department and go In for
Maryland politics.
Secretary Welles has long had
a wish to run for the United States
Senate from the Free State,
Win his ONOu Hill nome ds pdsc'
What will be United Nations at
titude toward Germany when
peace-making time comes What
especially will be the attitude IF
the United States toward Germany?
We are not good haters in this
country. We are fickle, say some
philosophers. We forget both likes
and hatreds in too much OF a
hurry
Already Germany is propaganda
ing in a subtle way for a pretty
peace. 1t is the duty OF everybody
TO be on guard.
Watch out for the slogan The
German people are not like Hitler.
The German people are indeed
like Hitler or they would not have
permitted him to lead them. Wood
row Wilson. not long before the
peace OF Versailles, said he had
been wrong when he thought the
German people were not like the
Kaiser They were or they would
have deposed the Kaiser.
Some mighty tough boys are COM
Ing home from this war. 1t isn't
a gentltmen's. fight. Only the Zero
cious will survive. In some battle
fields the soldiers. so outraged by
the BOBBY traps set by the enemy,
have wanted to retaliate by shoot
ing down those who cried "Surrend-
err" They we're afraid Surrender"
might be a variation Of the Ger
man and Japanese trick of setting
small bombs in the pockets OF dead
and wounded arranged to explode
in the face Of rescuers.
What will men who have surviv-
ed such horrors think about the
new world and how to live in it,
met several flyers who had been
through the Tunisian campaign.
They were so tough it hurt to look
at them.
The last war. so sociologists de-
clare marked the end OF Puritan
ism in the United States. The men
who came back after having seen
Paree found the OLD nome town a
little flat.
The veterans OF this war may de-
eide the whole world is the Ameri
can stage. Present military objec-
tives scatter men from the north
pole to the south pole. around the
equator and back again. Sons OF
the same family may now be seeing
service in Alaska. Guadalcanal. Aus
tralia and China. Will these fight
ers, returning. believe that the
United States can no longer hope
again to live apart from the other
countries,
Or will they say "the good old
U. S. A. is the place for me. Let's
mind our own business from now
on"