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...Nuts to You." Next day in answer to this protest, not Cordell Hull, busy in Lima, but Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles received handsome Dr. Thomsen. Two days before, Dr. Thomsen had informed Mr. Welles that Germany, whose currency export restrictions have long barred the transfer of German estate funds to U. S. beneficiaries, had finally agreed that U. S. heirs would henceforth get their money in full, regardless of their race or creed. Dr. Thomsen is himself an amiable and reasonable man, and deliberate Mr. Welles is a career diplomat of frigid temper, conservative habits, impeccable speech...
...telephone call from the Brazilian Foreign Office at Rio de Janeiro to Lima, Peru, 2,400 miles away, unofficially but effectually wound up the Eighth Pan-American Conference one afternoon last week. The Brazilian delegation at Lima was told it could string along with the 20 other American nations in ratifying the "solidarity" declaration over which the conference had higgled for a fortnight. It was the most noteworthy achievement of the meeting and it did a little more than any agent or agency since Nature to bring the Western Hemisphere together...
...vivid green satin shot with silver was a cynosure at the Cabinet affair, her official debut. The diplomats' party glittered with the uniforms of chargés d'affaires but only ten out of 19 Ambassadors were present: Mexico's Francisco Castillo Najera was absent in Lima; German Hans Dieckhoff had been called home; moose-tall Sir Ronald Lindsay, dean of the diplomatic corps, was vacationing in Britain, but Lady Lindsay attended, holding a little court of her own in the Green Room instead of going down the handshaking line...
Nazi journalists behaved like badly spoiled, ill-tempered and sulky brats last week at London and Brussels. At London, they boycotted Prime Minister Chamberlain's speech. At Lima, five German correspondents stalked out of a committee session in a huff when Dantes Bellegarde, Haitian delegate, declared that the Americas could not "possibly have anything in common with a nation that had reverted to customs of the Middle Ages...
...LIMA, Peru--Former Governor Altred M. Landon of Kansas, member of the United States delegation to the eight Pan American conference, today warned of Fascism, Naziism and Communism in the Americans and pleaded for continental solidarity based on the principles of the Monroe Doctrine...