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What he did not say-what he did not need to say-was that the hemisphere-wide seizure of Axis ships, immediately after the U.S. acted, was a demonstration of coordinated hemisphere solidarity that surpassed any precedent. Two days before, Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Mexican Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera (Hull calls him "Nádgera") signed an agreement permitting the U.S. to use Mexican airfields. The Good Neighbor policy was bearing rich fruit after years of backbreaking cultivation...
...Washington, Constantin Fotitch, short, shy and excitable Yugoslav Minister, rushed to see Sumner Welles, came out shining-eyed to cable his joy to King Peter II over "Your Majesty's ascent to the noble throne. . . ." Mr. Welles, less austere than usual, received the press, told the newsmen of the latest message to the U. S. Minister to Yugoslavia: that under the terms of the Lend-Lease Act, President Roosevelt would be able to send material aid to nations resisting aggression. It was a promise to the new Yugoslav Government that it could count...
...Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State during Cordell Hull's vacation, said at once: The U. S. was pleased when a great power like the Soviet Union reaffirmed its intention of maintaining its neutrality in the event that a neighboring country suffered attack. Not since the Bolsheviks took over has the U. S. called Russia a great power. But if Joseph Stalin was willing to release Turkey to help check Hitler in the Balkans, the U. S. could say friendly words, might even act upon them...
...make fast friends of 125,000,000 other Americans who had never before quite trusted us." Wertenbaker credits the complementary statesmanship of three very different Americans for this success-the hemispheric consciousness of President Roosevelt, the simple candor of Cordell Hull and the behind-the-scenes effectiveness of Sumner Welles. Says Author Wertenbaker: "The President is the idea man, Hull translates the ideas into policy, Welles attends to the details." At Lima, Hull singlehandedly held the anti-hemispheric forces to a draw. How strong these forces are Wertenbaker makes clear in his sections on Nazi activities in South America, especially...
Relations between Tokyo and the London-Washington Axis were tense in the midst of the Far Eastern war scare. The Japanese, who had started the scare, were dismayed at the length it had gone. To their protestations of peaceful intentions U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles coldly replied that the U. S. was interested in deeds, not words, and Congress voted an appropriation to fortify Samoa and Guam. At this point Ko Ishii bustled into his press conference and suggested that the U. S. restrict its activities to the Western Hemisphere. Then...