Foreign News: Hull Homecoming

Leaving historians to decide what if anything was accomplished at the Seventh Pan-American Conference at Montevideo (TIME, Dec. 11 et seq.), grey and graceful Secretary of State Cordell Hull was by last week completing his leisurely journey back to the U. S. In country after country he stopped to eat the ritual chicken and soothe Latin American sensibilities with smiles and goodwill speeches.

Peru. At a State dinner given by Peru's President General Oscar Benavides, Secretary Hull beamed while President Benavides reminded him of his own handsome but vague remarks at Montevideo in...

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