Arizona sun., 1948-10-01

in 1945 we have
..,1uu.cr seen President
= Roosevelt die and
Secretary Hull retire; peace come In
Europe; the United Nations found.
eGl and then, all unexpectedly, the
new and terrible force released
which brought the sudden cessation
of hoStilities in the Far East.
We saw, too, (few of us realized
it, tiny cloud no bigger than a
mans hand, take shape on the horl-
zon of world relations.
COrdell Hull realized the ne
cessity of maintaining friendly
relations between the United
States and Russia. Against the
advice of his physicians and the
. wishes of the wife to whom he
was devoted, he few to Moscow
to talk to the one man upon
whom the future of world peace
then seemed to depend.
l had the great privilege of talk
ing with Secretary Hull on the eve
of his departure for Moscow. When
I was shown into his office he was
sitting at the great desk in the
room from whose windows have
looked so many of the great states
men who have been America S
fo tbn xxyOr1I
The office of the secretary of
state has been removed from the
ancient rococo building next to the
White House which, with its high
ceilings, it's gloomy marble cor
ridors, wide stairways and it's fire.
~places, which was filed with Ger
tain odor of sanctityy slightly tinged
with touch of obsolescence which
spoke of days and eras that were
gone forever.
Today, the offices of the men who
direct our foreign affairs are housed
in an ultra-modern building, air.
cooled, brisk, almost modernistic
in it's design. But can imagine that
History, as she solemnly records
each days agenda of 1948, must
smile a bit ironically when she
notes the similarity of today's rec
ord and that which was the chief
concern of Corden Hull.
When he rose to greet me on
the occasion of my earlier in
terview with the courtesy which
was a natural characteristic and
one not acquired by acquaint-
anceship with the masters of
diplomatic protocol, his desk was
covered with papers. He indicat-
ed them with a gesture and ex-
planned that they all dealt with
his forthcoming mission to Mos
COW.
We talked for long time and the
viewpoint he expressed then con-
corning our policy toward Russia
remained unchanged on his return.
Russias Background
Forms Her Attitude
l saw him again with a small
group after his return and he re-
minded us that Russia's attitude
must be considered against her
background, that she was nation
which had been virtually locked up
for 25 years and during all that time
had heard nothing but epithets
against her, that she had cultivated
the habit of slapping back twice as
hard whenever she heard anything
she thought was criticism against
her.
Thus, a defense psychology was
built up a suspicious attitude toward
the whole world, which made the
Soviet psychology entirely differ
ent from ours. Each had much to
: learn from the other, both must i'm
prove, and that, Hull said, would
take time.
He felt very much the same way
when he concluded his memoirs this
year and offered this advice:
'In dealing with the Soviet
Union we must never waver in
this determination or give any
evidence of weakness, or cease
to insist that, although she is en-
ventiOn in her domestic affairs
by any other nation, her govern
ment has no right to force COM
munism on other nations or to
intervene in their domestic af-
fairs in any other way"