world, from the horrors of war--for he knew that we could not
hope to escape the consequences of another world war.

And at all times the emphasis of what he has said and of what
he has done has been laid upon the need for what might be termed
old-fashioned decency, justice, and fair dealing in human rela-
tions and in international relations.

He is a persuader rather than a leader. He relies on the ultimate
triumph of reason to solve all human problems. He could not, if
he would, coerce anyone into an intellectually repugnant course.
His life, public and private, has exemplified that kind of democ-
racy, governmental, intellectual, and spiritual, in which lies the
future hope of the human race.

As this is written, our nation is engaged in a war brought upon
us by those forces of evil which are attempting to conquer the
whole world by the sword. No man can measure the suffering
and unhappiness which have been, and which will be, brought
to humble and unoffending people everywhere before sanity and
decency once again govern our relations, one with the other. We,
raised in the American way of life, want to live in a sane and
decent world.

If this is the faith we are fighting for, Cordell Hull is one of its
leading apostles. For years no man on earth has labored more dili-
gently or more sincerely to perpetuate that philosophy and to pre-
vent the retrogression to the level of savagery at which the world
finds itself today. His name is written high, and will remain high,
on the list of those who have kept alight the flame of civilization
in the new Dark Ages which have come upon us.

UNDER SECRETARY OF STATE

Washington, D. C.
December 12, 1941

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