FOREIGN RELATIONS: Mr. Hull and Mr. Dulles

The man who might be the next U.S.

Secretary of State conferred with Cordell Hull last week, two hours a day for three days.

After the third session, tall, ruddy John Foster Dulles, 56, foreign-affairs adviser to Candidate Thomas E. Dewey, reported to the U.S. press. On crutches (he had an infected foot), he swung out of Mr. Hull's office, across the black & white marble checkerboard hall of the State Department, into the diplomats' waiting room. Said he:

"We have done something which is perhaps unique in American politics." The Manhattan Republican and the Tennessee Democrat had agreed—in a general way—on...