In the world, there are people who stand distinguished among their countrymen, outstanding in their efforts for diplomacy and peace within the domestic arenas of their nations. They build the morale and the esteem of their countries to become overly proud, too stubborn to realize that they might need help against all of the other great men in the world who preach the same ideologies of how they are the only great ones. It is from the faded memoirs of leaders like these that we can learn that it is not pride, boldness or individuality that makes a man great but it is his willingness to compromise with others, to back down when he is wrong or beaten and who is willing to try to work with all not to make his land grand but the world. Such a man was Cordell Hull, who through his values tried to ascertain greatness within his own country by foreign diplomacy, and who dedicated himself to a cause that asked to help solve the problems of humanity - He is the “Father of the United Nations”.

Cordell Hull became interested in helping other through politics. He worked hard to establish himself as a political figure in the United States of America when he became the chairman of the national committee and a member of the House of Representatives during the progressive era and Woodrow Wilson’s presidency. From Wilson, Hull developed an idealistic international viewpoint on foreign affairs, and strongly believed in and supported Wilson’s League of Nations. He also felt and saw that the major cause of war was because of countries’ economic nationalism, and he labored to finance the United States and other nations to avoid the conflict of war in the only way he could at that time. Later, Hull was appointed Franklin d. Roosevelt’s secretary of State, where he used his ideals in diplomatic affairs about how he thought that the nations in the world, including the U.S., were under developed fundamentally, whether that is political, economic or moral. Hull using Wilson’s ideologies concluded that the proper way to peace and mutual cooperation in the world was to have the correct ideals among everyone. He then, after World War II, applied his other ideals of seeing the progress of humanity through the maintenance of peace in a civilized existence. He knew that the world needed peaceful negotiations and dialogues over quandaries to better international understanding among humanity, and dedicated his life to achieving it.

Hull applied his beliefs in many ways. He first used many of Wilson’s great themes in his administration by creating friendly relation with Latin America, lowering trade barriers and by creating an international organization under global law. One of Hulls many successes with worldwide unity was his trade reciprocal trade program. The trade agreements advocated reciprocal trade agreements between nations, and negotiated reciprocal trade agreement with twenty-two countries. This acted out his idea that the expansion of trade would reduce global hostilities. Hull also used tariff policy as a method of coercion. It placed an extra duty on Nazi Germany’s goods, and also rejected the united states-Japanese trade agreement of 1911 in retaliation for the Japanese assault on China. Hull also saw many diplomatic successes when he implemented the Roosevelt’s Good neighbor Policy, which sought to better relation with Latin America. He also committed the United States to a policy of nonintervention in Latin America’s domestic affairs in attempt to remedy decades of unfair imperialism. All of this was an attempt to unify the world and to create a world enraptured with peace. Then Cordell Hull concerned him self with German’s annexation of Austria. He achieved a resolution that stated that a threat to any American Republic was a threat to all nations on the continent, using his authority to rectify any injustices against other s unworthy of such punishments and continued this idea when he tried to maintain china’s rights from Japan. He also grounded his position when aided the Allies to stop the Axis powers’ increasing aggression. It was to hopefully help the world and to battle the evils of their wants for world domination. Also Hull throughout the united states’ involvement in the second World War, Tried from the beginning with his state department colleagues to plan an international postwar peace organization he took every precaution to make his dr3am come true and thus created the united nations.

Cordell Hull is considered the father of the United Nations. He helped to originally found it with fifty-one nations committed to preserving peace though efforts to maintain collective security and worldwide joint action. Today the number of countries involved has evolved to nearly every nation on the globe. It was because of Hull that one of the greatest contribution for peace was achieved. And today, it has expanded past him, as the man and as the dream, to something far greater because now the entire world is trying to maintain the united nations’ four purposes: to try for international peace and security, to develop friendly relations among nation, to work together to rectifying international problems, while urging respect for human rights, and to be a place equidistant in harmonizing the actions of nations. It has become an important factor in resolving global conflicts and in rectifying protracted problems. It has undertaken complex acts involving peacekeeping, peacemaking and humanitarian facilitation. It has stopped conflicts from erupting, and brings hostile parties to understanding and agreement through diplomacy. All of which are done in attempt to make the world a safer, healthier and better place to live.

Cordell Hull was a man who will forever be a champion of peace, because he allowed for leaders to unite in the pride of humanity and the world, rather than in only themselves and their countries. He taught that the greatest strength comes form uniting, and that there is no greater fight than the one for the principle of peace. He demonstrated it through his political actions prior to and after the Second World Warm in the ideologies that he preached to the world and infinitely in an organization for harmony that has tremendous hope for lasting for many years to come. It is from the united nations and the wonder and the times of peace that it has created that makes Mr. Cordell Hull, as President Roosevelt once praised, "the one person in all the world who has done the most to make this great plan for peace an effective fact.”