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Behind Hull's Embargo
Lerner, Max | May 28, 1938 issue

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It has been customary to regard U.S. Secretary of States Cordell Hull as a prisoner in his own house. Among the State Department career men and the cynical checkerboard diplomats, the Secretary has stood out for his rugged purity of purpose, but he has seemed helpless in the clutch of department routine and the vested habits of the foreign office mentality. For like all foreign offices the State Department has drunk the heady wine of being at once a political elite and a corps of experts. Like all foreign offices it has therefore claimed diplomatic immunity to the democratic demands to which the more prosy government departments are subject.

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HULL, Cordell, 1871-1955; SECRETARIES of State (State governments); UNITED States -- Politics & government; STATE governments; DEMOCRACY; UNITED States
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