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...months later Sumner Welles publicly warned Japan that the U.S. is interested in deeds, not vaguely peaceful words. Admiral Nomura promptly called in 50 reporters and told them that the U.S. atmosphere was worse than when he arrived...
...Gathering. In the President's party, besides his sons, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles; General George Catlett Marshall, Army Chief of Staff; Admiral Harold Raynsford Stark, Chief of Naval Operations; Lend-Lease Administrator Harry Hopkins; Admiral King of the Atlantic Fleet; Lend-Lease Coordinator W. Averell Harriman, not to mention his Military Aide Pa Watson, his Naval Aide Captain Beardall, his physician Admiral Mclntire...
...Atlantic Fleet Admiral Ernest King. The Potomac promptly began sending out meaningless, innocent, provocative communiques. The Prime Minister simply vanished. From London also vanished Franklin Roosevelt's Man Friday, Harry Hopkins. No longer in Washington, or anywhere anybody could find them, were Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Chief of Staff General George C. Marshall, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Harold R. Stark, Chief of The Air Forces' Major General Henry H. Arnold, Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson. No longer at the Brooklyn Navy Yard, said luncheon-table gossip in New York, was the Navy...
...through Washington's jammed traffic, crossed into Maryland to Oxon Hill, where the Secretary could enter the cool magnificence of his home. In the great Georgian house Welles dined briefly, buckled into his homework. Even in the thick, still heat of a Maryland summer night on the Potomac, Sumner Welles seemed cool. War or peace, he will remain...
...secretly the French Cabinet met, announced after a two-hour session that it had discussed the hunting season, also "current affairs." Current affairs presumably included Nazi pressure, the attitude of the U.S. as presented to Petain by Ambassador Leahy just before the meeting. Same day Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles said that the U.S. attitude toward France would be determined by "the manifest effectiveness" with which France defends its territories against the Axis. Two days later Mr. Welles had an answer. France, said spokesmen, would not give up control of her African bases-to which probably should be added...