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...obtain an international organization is to set about its actual construction, and not merely to talk about it." So said Sumner Welles, addressing the New York Times Forum last week...
...permitted to become a question of party politics. But he suggested that the U.S. had not learned an equally important lesson: that the chances of founding such an organization were far greater if the foundations were laid before rather than after the end of the war. Said Diplomatist Sumner Welles : "The Moscow Declaration should have been inseparably linked to an additional declaration setting up an agency, representative of all the United Nations." "Stark Imperialism." Eloquently Welles warned against further delay in setting up a council of all the United Nations: isolationism, in its earlier form, he said, is dead...
...John S. Sumner, mild-mannered successor to the late, rabid Anthony Corn-stock as secretary of the New York Society for the Suppression of Vice, blew off a bit of steam after reading D. H. Lawrence's The First Lady Chatterley* (TIME, March 27). He discovered "obscene" passages on 92 pages of the book, prodded police to seize the 398 copies in its publisher's stockroom. Said Dial Press Publisher George W. Joel: Not one of "approximately sixty reviews . . . mentioned any obscenity. As a matter of fact, we consider it very tame...
Alvin H. Hansen, Lucius N. Littauner Professor of Political Economy, Sumner H. Slichter, Lamont University Professor, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy and Dean of the Graduate School of Public Administration, will all state their own conclusions in a symposium which will probably be ready for publication late in the year...
Last week troubled Latin American diplomats were drawing two conclusions: 1) hesitant, muddled management has seriously weakened the U.S. Good Neighbor policy; 2) the resignation of Charter Good Neighbor Sumner Welles is being followed by a gradual purge of Welles men from OARA. Chief Duggan's exit will be followed by that of at least one important subordinate...