Show T TIlE THE E D DAILY ILY WASHINGTON M Round Merry e r r y G o R 6 u n d Trade Trad Mark Mirk B By DREW PEARSON and ROBERT ALLEN W WASHINGTON For For For almost one year Cordell Cordell Cordell Cor- Cor dell Hulls Hull's state department has been keeping its nose to the gr ground und doing as little as possible possible possible ble and doing it as quietly as possible This reticence followed the terrible fiasco of the London economic conference and all the ballyhoo of preparing Co for it in Washington But now our diplomats have decided it is safe to poke their noses above ground and like the groundhog are showing themselves occa occa- At last Mr Hulls Hull's reciprocity treaties have begun to take sap shape and a working agreement agreement agreement agree agree- ment between France an Britain makes Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Germanys Germany's Ger Ger- many's return to the disarmament discussions possible Japan once again has reared its head in in China Another abortive naval conference looms on the horizon Cuba and Mexico retain their status as perCI perennial nial problems All of these problems are bein being handled by byone byone byone one of a unique collection of diplomats the most cosmopolitan ever assembled under any administration Here is a see look-see at some of them Secretary Hull Cordell Hull came into office with the opportunity opportunity opportunity of bein being the most outstanding secretary of state in recent years So far however he has been a blank and an enigma He has a be benign benign benign be- be manner a kindly disposition an unconquerable unconquerable unconquerable inability to express himself on any anyone one point in less than a thousand words and the vindictiveness of the Tennessee mountain clans from fromi which he sprang x His ideas are superb his execution atrocious Secretary Hull lives on the memories of the Pan-American Pan conference at Montevideo where he was a hero And any ambassador who comes to see him finds the conversation sooner or later drifting around to the spirit of Mon Mon- Most ambassadors however do not come to see Mr Hull HuH They find him too loquacious When they want something done they see Undersecretary Undersecretary Un Un- Phillips or on Latin-American Latin affairs Sumner Welles The Undersecretary William Phillips undersecretary of state is isan isan isan an accomplished diplomat His clothes are well- well cut his ties tics shirt and ancl handkerchiefs harmonize his voice is soft and agreeable He can say nothing in several languages Phillips' Phillips chief characteristic is to take n no nl responsibility under any circumstances When he says I III dont don't know knowl the cadences of his voice vary according according accord accord- ing to whether he is acting secretary of state or just the undersecretary Of human passions he shows nothing Whatever Whatever What What- ever feeling he may have are carefully suppressed suppressed suppressed sup sup- pressed by the dignity of his office While this fear of responsibility makes him incapable of showing any initiative he is an ex excellent excellent excellent ex- ex executive There are few men in the state department who can take orders with the same precision and execute them as Sumner Welles Velles Sumner Welles Velles assistant secretary of state is the most forthright executive in the state de de- de- de He has under l his s suzerainty the 20 republics of Latin-America Latin and the path in front of his door as js worn with their goings and comings Despite a conservative conservative almost almost tory background Welles Velles is a liberal and is opposed to championing the rights of American bankers and big corporations in the western hemisphere whose destinies in part h he controls He sold President Roosevelt on the good neighbor policy and when wren it comes to Latin- Latin American affairs he is the state department Certainly Mr Hull would not think of overruling overruling ing him and on most policies this also applies to the president One Who Vho Climbed Wilbur John Carr the oldest assistant secretary secretary sec see of state is the only man in the department department department depart depart- ment who has worked his way up from a clerkship clerkship clerkship clerk clerk- ship to a position of majo majo- importance For 19 years he supported an invalid wife on an in infinitesimal infinitesimal in- in salary and rose from clerk to chief clerk then to director of the consular bureau His wife died and seven years later he married again this time to a lady of wealth Wealth is the first requisite of success in the state department department depart depart- ment meat and from that time on C Carr rr was made Carr has not only wealth but experience and a reasonable amount of brains The result is that he runs most of the administrative bureaus bureaus bureaus bu bu- bu- bu of the state department and runs them fairly well He is slow meticulous and has a habit of getting his desk piled so high with pa papers papers papers pa- pa pers that the undersecretary of state once or ordered ordered or- or dered him to clean their off He is cursed from every side It is Carr her and Carr there and Carrs Carr's to blame for tor anything happening anywhere anywhere anywhere any any- where but if he passed out of the picture the state department would look years before it could replace him 2635 1935 b III polled Ino e |