Hull, Cordell

Within the text of his proposal the Secretary of War several times characterized it as the equivalent of an unconditional surrender, but others did not see it so. Before Byrnes left for Potsdam he had carried the document to ailing Cordell Hull, a fellow Southerner and Franklin Roosevelt s Secretary of State from 1933 to 1944, and Hull had immediately plucked out the concession to the present dynasty —the Emperor Hiro-hito, in whose mild myopic figure many Americans had personified Japanese militarism—and told Byrnes that the statement seemed too much like appeasement of Japan. ... 

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The Secretary of State was among the first to raise a question as to the U.S. attitude toward gas warfare in World War II. In January 1942, Secretary of State Cordell Hull queried Secretary of War Stimson on the advisability of a unilateral declaration by the United States of its intention to observe the terms of the 1925 Geneva Gas Protocol prohibiting the use in war of poisonous gases. ... 

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