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...first time since the war disrupted the traditional registration week schedule, President Conant will address a meeting of all new and returning students in Sanders Theatre at 7:30 o'clock tonight. Provost Paul H. Buck, Dean A. Chester Hanford, and Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, will also speak...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 3000 MEN TO CROWD COLLEGE | 2/1/1946 | See Source »

Married. Major Benjamin Welles, 29, bonvivacious elder son of sobersided Sumner Welles, and prewar New York Timesm&n., soon to join the Times's China staff; and Cynthia Monteith Aitken, 28, ex-wife of Lord Beaverbrook's son Max; he for the first time, she for the second; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jan. 21, 1946 | 1/21/1946 | See Source »

These facts, set down in official memoranda by former Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles (who was at the Atlantic Charter meeting), were introduced last week into the records of the Pearl Harbor investigation. They were of little value to Republicans, who had hoped to unearth some evidence that the late President had sought a way to wangle the U.S. into war. Cracked one Senator: "About the only thing this investigation has shown is how isolationist Franklin Roosevelt really...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PEARL HARBOR: For Roosevelt Historians | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

August 17. Sumner Welles prepared a "watered-down" version of the warning. It was delivered to the Japs secretly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: The Last Days | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

Briggs bluntly discarded the old Sumner Welles doctrine of unanimity of agreement between the American republics. This doctrine, said Briggs, "not infrequently resulted in whittling down principles to fit the lowest unanimous denominator." Briggs suggested that the American nations work on a majority basis, respecting but not kowtowing to minority views...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE HEMISPHERE: To Arms I | 12/3/1945 | See Source »

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