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...casting a narrow but bright beam of light on the communication carried on between government and people. Without reflecting at all, necessarily, on the wisdom of the long-range policies carried out by such means, they are assisting what William Graham Sumner long ago grimly felt to be the one hope of democracy-that the men who profess it should know how it works. And in a democracy, under a two-party system, whatever political adroitness there may be in the release of news and information, it is a game at which two or more can play. Indeed...
Anthony Eden spoke soberly in Ottawa of the need for cooperation among World War II's great powers. In London, exiled statesmen fretted about frontiers not yet won back from the enemy (see col. 2). In Washington, U.S. Under Secretary Sumner Welles felt his way through labyrinthine American emotions toward a formula for a postwar world (see p. 24). In all this hullabaloo, one small voice put the problem squarely to the powers which after all must solve it. Said Milan Grol, Yugoslav Minister of Communications and liberal Serb candidate for the vacant post of Foreign Minister...
Replying to a letter from Ralph Bartn Perry, Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy and chairman of the American Defense Harvard Group, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles wrote that the actions taken in North African diplomatic relations conform to the desires of most of the American people, contrary to the opinion expressed in some circles...
Diplomatic Front. To the White House went British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden, for the culmination of the extraordinarily cautious visit begun three weeks ago. For two hours and 15 minutes Franklin Roosevelt and Anthony Eden talked high diplomacy. They were flanked by Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Under Secretary Sumner Welles, Ambassador John G. Winant, British Ambassador Viscount Halifax...
...Henry J. Kaiser brought another model, of the new 514-ft. aircraft carriers that will roll off the ways of his Vancouver shipyards at the rate of six a month by the end of 1943. Bearing no gifts, but only urgent business, had come such men as Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Lieut. General George C. Kenney, Allied Air Forces Commander in the Southwest Pacific...