The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-01-26
Observations
International Scene
Upset Since Cordell
Hull's Exit
BY HELEN EssARY

The iron glue that held the inter
national situation together may
have been Cordell Hull.
Anyhow, ever since the i'll Ten
nessean resigned from office Of Sec
rotary OF State, the international
situation and the Allies in Europe,
Asia, Africa, North and South
America who compose II have been
falling apart. Everybody who
should be loving every other body
is mad. Very mad. And speaking
out OF turn at every chance.
While Cordell Hull guided the
foreign policy OF this country a
semblance OF national and interna-
tional unity was preserved. Eng
land, Russia, the United States,
South America and China pretend
ed to love each other with the fer
vor OF blood brothers. England
pretended to love the small ma
lions and the small nations pre-
tended to love each other.
England pretended to love us and
we weren't too critical of England.
Messrs. Roosevelt Churchill and
Stain smiled nicely at each other,
at least for the cameras.
But row nobody loves anybody
who lives across any border, or
next door. The Big Three meeting
is postponed and postponed again.
The leaders OF Russia. England and
the United States cannot seem TO
settle on a date for a conference.
And within our own borders,
people, many people. are frighten-
ed and resentful. Hulls successor.
Edward Stettinius, a really able
person, attacks Senator Burt
Wheeler for doubling the wisdom
of demanding OF Germany an I'm
conditional surrender
Stettinius' attitude is consider
ei very bad form by Congress. No
properly raised member OF the
State Department ever before at
tackled Congress. Certainly not the
Senate. 1t is possible, of course,
that Mr.. Roosevelt told Stettinius
20 scold the mem ber OF the Senate.
Mr.. Roosevelt is almost always
cross at the Senate. Cross or
bored. He says its members are
"fuddy-dullies"
However. if Cordell Hull had
been nearby, President Roosevelt
would not let his new mad get into
print. Hull would have cautioned
the President against such mood.
Mr.. Roosevelt would have Needed
his secretary OF states warning.
People, all kinds OF people, par
ticularly people at the top OF pub
lie Office we're accustomed TO list
ening to Cordell Hull That Is
what well-informed Washington
ians are remembering nowadays.
There was a quality OF austere in
tegrity in THE Judge, as Hull's
old friends called him, that made
associates here and abroad mind
their political and diplomatic P's
and Qs. The Judge was a sym
bol' so those who describe his
personality and place are given to
saying.
But Hull was not an inactive
symbol. He was in control OF the
Situation at al Times.
WE'LL now" he would drawl.
ct advise you against that. Don't
take any unnecessary steps. Give
him enough rope and he'll hang
himself"
Hull swore neatly when he felt
like swearing. He wasn't afraid
OF Mr.. Roosevelt or OF anybody
else. Mr.. Roosevelt and the rest
were afraid Of him.
Perhaps the Presidents call on
his former secretary OF state at
the Bethesda Hospital was produc-
tive OF wise counsel from the man
he so relied on for u years. The
international situation needs some
OF the Hull glue to stick its crack
ing pieces together.
l WAS SURPRISED THE 9TH
Err NIGHT in a post-dinner table
conversation to hear sorae violent
pre-war interventionists attack the
present administration policy OF
unconditional surrender for Ger
many.
II Is impossible to exterminate a
powerful nation like Germany.
the off-the-record talk went. Such
an Allied attitude only helps stiffen
German resistance. prolong the war
and lose thousands OF lives.