OCR Text |
Show ' Xot Interested - .... v r i : "7" j L HECBETABT HI LL He's "out at polities' HULL DISCLAIMS -ANY-CAHDIDACY WASHINGTON. Jan. 2 WV-Sec-retary Hull today disclaimed personal per-sonal ambitions for the presidency. At his press conference he said he knew nothing of report! that President Pres-ident Roosevelt had chosen him as his successor. He added Immediately Immedi-ately that he had made all the comments thst could be made on this subject six to twelve months ago, when In writing to various persons he stated that he had no personal purposes, In any sense, of a political nature. Hull said he also told those persons per-sons that he was not giving anybody any-body permission to do or ssy anything any-thing contrary to that attitude. Some of the letters to which he referred, he recalled, have been published. Immediately following the press conference a state department official offi-cial was authorized to say to correspondents corre-spondents that Hull Is out of poll-tics poll-tics and that hs does not want politics poli-tics mixed in with departmental affairs. The official added that when some persons have asked Hull for permission to advocate his candidacy candi-dacy for the presidency, he has specifically requested them not to do so. |