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...Although Washington has many a sumptuous private residence, few of them are now on Massachusetts Avenue, where in the space of a few blocks stand 14 embassies and legations. Notable remaining Massachusetts Avenue mansions: the unused town house of Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, the four-story house of the President's fifth cousin Alice Longworth, the red-brick mansion of the famed Misses Patten, who once entertained the Prince of Wales, the King of Belgium...
...hours' flying time the Anzac Clipper, camouflaged for day flying and blacked out at night, clocked 4,350 statute miles last week, bringing U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles home in record time from the Rio de Janeiro Conference of American foreign ministers...
...gaunt, dog-tired Sumner Welles fell the task of summing up the U.S. position, of agreeing to a declaration that only "recommended" that the Americas break with the Axis, instead of tossing into Axis teeth a 21-voiced cry of defiance and scorn. But so far as they had gone the American republics had gone together...
...first time in the history of our hemisphere," said Sumner Welles, "joint action of the highest political character has been taken by all of the American nations...
...generosity and conformity to tradition. The honorary degree is only a symbolism, but men live and die for symbols. Any Senior could draw up a list of men worthy of sitting on the Graduation platform this June: from Harvard alumni Roger Baldwin '05 of the Civil Liberties League, and Sumner Welles '13. From education, Charles Beard and Robert Morss Lovett, neither of whom has ever received such an award because they have insisted too strongly on what they felt was truth. From abroad John Maynard Keynes, Harold Laski, or Ernest Bevin, of whom with their brilliance, achievement, and human leadership...