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As tensions increased in Europe in the years prior to World War II, Roosevelt increasingly held the reins of American foreign policy, and Hull, ever loyal to the president, was to some degree pushed aside. To a large extent Hull was in charge of the unsuccessful negotiations with the Japanese until the month before Pearl Harbor was attacked. Roosevelt directed much of European foreign policy himself, relying on Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, sometimes to Hull's great vexation. (Instead of sending Hull as special emissary to Europe in 1940, Roosevelt sent Welles, who was a personal friend.) Roosevelt reportedly told W. Averell Harriman that he did not take Hull to his conferences with Churchill and Stalin because Hull was "difficult to handle. . . . [and] would be a nuisance." In private conversations Hull sometimes expressed his frustration with the president's "treatment of the [State] Department and encroachment in...
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