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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week the Conte di Savoia brought Sumner Welles back to Manhattan from his 41-day mission to Europe. Ship-news reporters found the Under Secretary of State cold, erect, impenetrable as usual, impeccable in a double-breasted blue suit with a navy-blue tie on his soft-collared white shirt, holding a blue chesterfield overcoat and Homburg...
...nearly done, glacial Mr. Welles melted ever so slightly; he seemed pleasantly weary, a touch debonair. He was happy to be home, and admitted it. A reporter referred to the 13-hour Gibraltar delay while British searched the Conte di Savoia for Dr. Hjalmar Schacht, once Nazi Minister of Economics. Newsman: "Was Dr. Schacht in your trunk?" Grinned Mr. Welles: "Just like Morgan's midget...
Last week Mr. Welles arrived at the Vatican at 9:48 a. m. and left Pope Pius XII at 11:05 a.m. Following evening he left Rome, reached Genoa at 6:30 the next morning and, after a four-hour rest at his hotel, he went aboard the Conte di Savoia, which sailed at noon. The ship anchored at Gibraltar at 5:30 a. m., was boarded by British officers at 8, thoroughly searched by them (looking for German Economist Dr. Schacht, said rumors, while Berlin said he was there) and sailed...
...Welles mission changed: like hosts speaking their mind after the guest left, editorial writers sneered at the unreality and ambiguity of the mission. Punch printed an old-fashioned cartoon showing Mr. Welles dealing in magic and spells (see cut). A hard-bitten British officer, holding up the Conte di Savoia for 13 hours while Sumner Welles sat in his cabin writing his report, took one last occasion to remind the U. S. of Britain's position: "This is war," said he. "There might be somebody aboard whom we want to take...
...di k'ad do 'anlts'isigo...