24 MARCH 1939, Page 6

A question to which I can get no answer—though it

will quite probably have answered itself before these lines are in print—is, where is Mr. Cordell Hull, and why have all the Notes to Berlin and the statements regarding Germany emanated from Mr. Sumner Welles, as Acting-Secretary of State ? A Cabinet Minister could not tell me. The American Embassy could not tell me. I have seen no mention of the Secretary of State being ill. We shall soon have a tale that he is crossing the Atlantic in disguise to consult.

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