THE CABINET: New Deal: World Phase

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The dark, drafty corridors of the gingerbread building that houses the Department of State were thronged last week by foreign ambassadors and ministers marching & countermarching at a tempo set by the White House. The moose-tall figure of Britain's Sir Ronald Lindsay came & went repeatedly at the spacious office of Secretary of State Cordell Hull. France's plump, smiling Paul Claudel, soon going home, clicked his heels up & down the stone floors. In the Secretary's anteroom with its stiff jet-black furniture and portraits of Hughes. Lansing, Colby and...

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