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Later, when the 46-man U.S. delegation headed by Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles arrived in the middle of a heat wave, Aranha was ready and waiting. Three times the 42-ton Clipper circled the lavender hills around Rio's bay. At the airport 2,000 Brazilians cheered themselves hoarse, knocked down one lone man who started to boo, trampled over gaily uniformed grenadier guards. Before leaving Washington the supposedly icy Mr. Welles had kissed his wife good-by with the tenderness of a lad going off to the wars. Now the Rio welcome must have touched...
...undertakes this task, Sumner Welles will be helped by his thorough understanding of the four delicately balanced springs of policy in the intricate mechanism of Pan-American relations...
These things Sumner Welles knows thoroughly, for he learned Argentine problems as first secretary in Buenos Aires during the last two years of World War I. Although Argentina remained neutral throughout World War I her neutrality was benevolently pro-U.S. and pro-British. For that, much of the credit goes to Sumner Welles. In Rio, Mr. Welles's diplomacy will be reinforced by the web of cooperation and compromise which Brazil's Oswaldo Aranha wove in a recent good-will trip to Argentina, Uruguay and Chile...
...expectant Brazilians were waiting for something, but it was not for the Argentine delegation. Five minutes later, however, while the Buenos Aires representatives were still on the scene, a huge, forty-ton Yankee clipper zoomed out of the skies an disgorged its immaculate cargo, Under-Secretary of State Sumner Welles, complete with walking stick. This was what the crowd was there for; they greeted him enthusiastically. "Hats were thrown in the air and shouts of 'Viva America' and 'Bravo Welles' resounded as the tall, dignified diplomat debarked," reported Joseph Driscoll to the Herald Tribune. The Argentine delegation was caught...
...press services. The Administration has set the stage for some sort of violence, and the Rio conference may raise the curtain. Pressure, exerted not directly by the United States, but by the community of Pan American nations, could turn the tide for some pro-Ally pronunciamento. If it does, Sumner Welles, the United States, and the cause of the democracies can each chalk up a victory...