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WASHINGTON--The French Vichy Government has reaffirmed its pledge to remain neutral and keep the French fleet out of German hands, but the United States is awaiting answers to "other important question" before it considers the situation as satisfactory, Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles said today...
...House so many Congressmen rushed alibis into print that the galleries wondered if anybody had been present when the bill was up. Uprose Illinois' blonde, blue-eyed Jessie Sumner, to pin the blame on Georgia's patient Robert Ramspeck, the bill's sponsor. Miss Sumner had not known that the bill provided pensions for Congressmen; why hadn't Ramspeck said...
...been informed of this traffic. Already there were signs that the U.S. State Department, which has long given Vichy the benefit of enormous doubts, was undergoing a change of heart. Under Secretary Sumner Welles summoned Vichy's Ambassador Gaston Henri-Haye for a stern talk, later denied that the Free French seizure of St. Pierre and Miquelon (TIME, Jan. 5) would cause the U.S. to invoke the Declaration of Havana. He implied that, although the Free French could be told to quit the islands while relations with Vichy remained tense, the U.S. had no idea of telling them...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
...William Graham Sumner's Folkways...