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Long overdue was the announcement Sumner Welles made last week: that the U.S. Government would at once call a United Nations conference to study the problem of freedom from want. For his significant speech the Under Secretary of State chose a significant place: Toronto, a center of strong Empire sympathies and a sounding board for U.S., Canadian and British relations...
...Sumner Welles had gone to Toronto to get an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Then, to an audience of students and Dominion bigwigs, Sumner Welles delivered the address that reduced months of generalizations to something tangible...
Colonel Beigbeder talked long with Sumner Welles at the State Department, went with him for a chat with President Roosevelt. Guesses were that Colonel Beigbeder was as interested in U.S. foreign policy as in U.S. military might; that U.S. officials were as interested in what Beigbeder had to say about Spain and Spanish Morocco as they were in showing him the U.S. military plant...
Last night's meeting of the Council on Post-War Problems clearly defined the threat which victorious Soviet Russia can present to a successful peace settlement. It served to make doubly welcome Sumner Welles' disclosure of plans for a United Nations conference on post-war problems in the near future. Unless satisfactory agreements can be reached during wartime, the Allies will find themselves forced to compromise drastically the democratic ideals at the time of the Peace Conference. The Russo-Polish boundary settlements offer a problem which is arising even...
...talks on supply problems. In the U.S. Golikov was treated (and behaved) more like a mystery man than a visiting celebrity. He was observed to be a muscular man with a head which seemed to have been carved from pink glass, to be so short that the handkerchief in Sumner Welles's pocket showed above his clean-shaven crown. Beyond that nothing was known. He disappeared after a brief visit...