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...Washington worried Minister Dr. Joāo Antonio de Bianchi hurried around to the State Department to see Under Secretary Sumner Welles, then announced that he had received "definite assurances" that the U.S. would not try to seize the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands or any other Portuguese possessions. In a press conference Under Secretary Welles was less definite. The U.S., calmly observed Mr. Welles, has no desire to see any change of Portuguese sovereignty of the islands. Nevertheless, he added, President Roosevelt had stated that it was vital to American security that Atlantic outposts "remain in friendly hands...
...talked with the press, showed himself in public, and most important, he conferred with Sumner Welles. When he emerged, both men wore the forced, puckered smiles of acute pain that go with diplomatic friendship...
...booted and spurred. Gone, all gone, were the whoops against New Deal-tycoon collusion, the sneers at "Mamma" Roosevelt, the ballyhoo for the forthcoming American Youth Congress in Philadelphia as a red-hot peace rally. The Worker even referred to elegant, wing-collared, Groton-schooled Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles as "Mr." There were also many chest-throwing stories of Russian Army prowess written in old-fashioned dime-novel style. Typical sample: "Soviet frontier guards, who sustained the first sudden attack of the perfidious fascist enemy, fought like lions and covered themselves with immortal glory. . . ." But the Worker...
Three days later, as the German Army moved into Russia (see p. 21), the hypothetical question was a hypothetical question no longer. Now Sumner Welles had an even more perplexing question to face: What aid could the U.S. send to Russia...
...these problems Sumner Welles presumably considered this week as he talked with President Roosevelt at the White House (see p. 11). When he emerged, to tell waiting reporters what had been decided, the question of aid to Russia was still unsettled. The Soviet Government had not yet asked the U.S. for help. But, said the inscrutable Mr. Welles, the President had authority under the Lend-Lease Act to furnish aid to any country resisting aggression...