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William Phillips, whose family has been distinguished in New England since the founding of Massachusetts Bay Colony, has no State Department rival save Under Secretary Sumner Welles for tall, aristocratic elegance. He was once Assistant Secretary of State, twice Under Secretary, served as Ambassador to Belgium and Italy, has been one of State Secretary Cordell Hull's croquet-playing cronies...
When Gottfried Sandstede fled, the Argentines were hopping mad. That was before Pearl Harbor, before their ships were sunk by Axis raiders, before they were formally accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...
...Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles declared before the New York Herald Tribune forum on public affairs: "It seems to me that the first essential [of world peace] is the continuous and rapid perfecting of a relationship between the United Nations so that this military relationship may be further strengthened by the removal of all semblance of disunity or of suspicious rivalry...
Lieut, (j.g.) Arnold Welles, 26-year-old son of Under Secretary of State Sumner, reached Rio de Janeiro to start work at the U.S. Embassy as a naval aide...
...more than three months later when Sumner Welles, tired of waiting for the Chileans to take effective action, made his now famous Boston speech, which caused Chile's President Rios to postpone a visit to Washington, then to change his Cabinet...