Hull Cordell

United States secretary of state from 1933 to 1944. Had limited information about the persecution of the Jews in Germany but declined to intercede in what he regarded as Germany's internal affair. Hull opposed any relaxation of American immigration regulations during the war. Laid the groundwork for a postwar United nations. 

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