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Problems, not personalities, were on the reading public's mind. On most nonfiction best-seller lists were Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision, Charles & Mary Beard's A Basic History of the United States, Edgar Snow's People on Our Side, Walter Lippmann's U.S. War Aims, Joseph C. Grew's Ten Years in Japan...
There was clear evidence of deteriorating relations between the other American republics and the State Department. The firm hand and general know-how on Latin America seemed to have disappeared with the resignation of Diplomats Sumner Welles and Lawrence Duggan. Recently seven Latin American ambassadors met with Hull to discuss the participation of their nations in the development of a world security organization. At the close of the meeting the proud ambassadors told reporters that they had been lectured, had been allowed to say nothing, and treated like schoolchildren. Further, the Latin American leaders now want to call a meeting...
...royal Stuarts and pretenders to the English throne was a German subject who had remained behind when the Germans evacuated Florence. He was happy to find himself among the Allies. Prince Rupprecht had never pressed his claims to the English throne, but last week he was studying Sumner Welles' plan to divide Germany into three states, was reported to be willing to accept the crown of one of them. His father, Ludwig III, was deposed as King of Bavaria...
...Others: Sumner Welles's The Time for Decision; Ambassador Crew's Ten Years in Japan; Raymond Clapper's Watching the World; Eric Johnston's America Unlimited; John Carlson's Under Cover; E. B. White's One Man's Meat; Senator James Mead's Tell the Folks Back Home...
...After a stay at his father's sanitorium in New Hampshire, young Sidis returned to Harvard. His lifelong physical awkwardness was already apparent. His "marked distrust of people" did not prevent him from graduating cum laude in 1914, aged 16. Reporters bypassed such classmates as Leverett Saltonstall and Sumner Welles in their eagerness to interview the prodigy. He told them: "I want to live the perfect life. The only way to live the perfect life is to live it in seclusion. I have always hated crowds." But he stayed on to breeze through Harvard Law School...