Evening star., 1943-09-12
Hull 10 Answer Critics
0fU 5.Foreign Policy
In Broadcast Tonight
By BLAIR ROLES.

Secretary of State Hull will talk
on Our Foreign Policy in the
Framework of Our National Inter-
ests" tonight in the first public
speech he has made since July %,
1912. The talk. scheduled to last
half an hour, will be broadcast at
9 o'clock by the National Broad
casting Co. The State Department
yesterday called the address very
important"
Mr.. Hull is expected to respond
to critics who maintain that the
department lacks policy and to
defend his own course in foreign
relations. The department dis
closed that the Secretary Will give
lot OF time to explaining current
and, postwar objectives in the United
States conduct of foreign affairs.
The talk comes at a time when
the department is in the midst of a
new struggle, over authority, which
is complicated by differences with
the Treasury Department over for
eign affairs matters where procure
ment OF supplies abroad is con-
cerned. But it is considered un-
likely that Mr.. Hull will refer in
his talk to ruptures within his or
ga11lzation or to the resignation OF
Undersecretary Welles, who report
edly disagree in policy matters with
the Secretary.
The Departments Office of For
eign Economic Coordination is
ready to demand that Mr.. Hull
insist that Governor Herbert Leh-
man, director of Foreign Relief and
Rehabilitation Operations in the
State Department, make himself
and his organization amenable to
the coordination office decisions.
Mr.. Hull has formally ordered Gov.
Lehman to put his agency under the
coordination office supervision.
Differ In Instructions,
The coordination Office is said by
outsiders also to be at odds with
Treasury representatives who i'm
pinge on foreign affairs matters in
overseas dealings. Mr.. Hull and the
Office of Foreign Economic Coo ordi-
nation director, Dean AcheSon, are
said to view the presidential in
struction of August giving the
State Department co-ordinating
authority over foreign affairs deal
ings as conveying to it supervisory
authority over foreign matters.
Secretary of the Treasury Morgen-
thau and Gov. Lehman, who was
given to understand he would have
a pretty free hand when he was in
stalled in his post. are said to view
coordination as simply matter of
reporting to the State Department
what their agencies have decided to
do in fields where foreign policy is
concerned. Mr.. Hull is reported
ready to put the matter up to Pres
ident Roosevelt, who chose Gov.
Lehman for the relief job.
Only the White House can arbi-
trate a controversy between the
State and Treasury Departments.
The OFFEC is expanding so rap
idly that some pressure is being
made from within the department
for the creation of two undersec-
retaryships-one to carry out the
| political function that was the
province of Mr.. Welles and the
other to manage the economic un-
dertakings which are the affair of
the Acheson agency. Secretary
Hull has given Mr. Acheson a free
hand to develop his agency's work
according to his own lights.
More Appointments Expected.
The most tangible sign of Mr..
Acheson's independence in the de-
| partment are the recent appoint
ments of Dean James Lands and
Calvin B. Baldwin to important
economic positions abroad for the
department. Mr. Lands will be
Minister in the Middle East and
Mr.. Baldwin is to be in charge of
Italian relief. Both of them are
New Dealers.
The roster also includes Dallas
bort, who formerly was an assist
ant to Wayne Coy, one of the Pres
idential advisers, and earlier an in
telligence officer for Harry Hopkins
in the old WPA days, and Herman
FOUND.