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Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles (see p. 10) gave out the news in Washington. Curious reporters immediately wanted to know: Did President Roosevelt's Lend-Lease Administrator's visit to Moscow mean that Russia would get aid under the Lend-Lease Act? No, no, said Sumner Welles. The Russians had plenty of cash in the U.S.* to pay for what they bought; let's not talk about their credit...
...heaviest brickbat any high official of the U.S. had yet thrown at Adolf Hitler then left the hands of cool, calm Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, who purposely chose that gathering as audience for his brick-heaving. Said he, answering rumors that the Nazis may soon campaign for a negotiated peace: "There can come no peace until the Hitlerite Government of Germany has been finally and utterly destroyed...
...cannot believe," said Sumner Welles gravely, "that peoples of good will will not once more strive to realize the great ideal of an association of nations...
...Washington, Lieut. General Filip Ivanovitch Golikov and Engineer General Alexander Repin, heads of a Soviet military mission to coordinate Russian orders for supplies, arrived by air, conferred with Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles and General George Catlett Marshall, U.S. Chief of Staff...
Kichisaburo Nomura, Japan's one-eyed Ambassador, busily pumped hands in Sumner Welles's waiting room, pumped a hand that swam into his vision from the blind side. It was the Negro attendant reaching for his hat. Next day China's Dr. Hu Shih, two-eyed but confused, made the same mistake, pumped the same hand in the same room...