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Early Monday morning the President telephoned Cordell Hull, ill in his hotel suite. He called in Sumner Welles. To Under Secretary Welles he gave the task of drafting a statement that would make clear to the U.S. the implications of Hitler's move: the magnitude of Hitler's vision of his world, the scope of his dreams of conquest, the threat to the U.S. proved even by the German attack on Russia...
...President okayed it. At noon Sumner Welles read the statement to newsmen in the State Department. The usually impassive correspondent of the German News Bureau frowned as he made his note; the correspondent of the official Soviet agency frowned at the phrases that put Communism and Naziism in the same class. The U.S. newsmen checked off the phrases applied to Nazi Germany and its ways-"treacherous, dishonorable, deceitful, hostile, murderous, brutal, desperate." When the U.S. could officially use such terms as were now applied to the Nazis, the U.S. was certainly...
Soon Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, acting for the President, sent a copy of the message-scornful words and all-to Dr. Hans Thomsen, Germany's Chargé d'Affaires in Washington. Added Mr. Welles, polite as always: "Accept, sir, the renewed assurance of my high consideration...
...State Department press conference one morning last week, a reporter asked Under Secretary Sumner Welles: "If Russia is attacked by Germany, will she be eligible for aid under the Lend-Lease Act?" A fleeting smile passed across Sumner Welles's usually impassive face. That was, said he, a hypothetical question...
...sworn in. On his way back to Buenos Aires from Europe, where he was a longtime delegate to the League of Nations and later Ambassador to the Vatican, Dr. Ruiz had stopped in Washington for talks with Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles. Hardly had he taken office than a report from Montevideo, across the broad mouth of the Rio de la Plata, indicated that the toughest defense problem between the U.S. and Argentina would be solved...