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...President Jorge Ubico of Guatemala was 62 and successful (see p. 37). In Moscow, Russia celebrated the 23rd anniversary of its Revolution with a military demonstration and professions of peace, while in Washington tiny Ambassador Constantine Alexandrovich Oumansky served caviar to U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles and to Allied and Axis diplomats. The second anniversary of great Kamal Atatürk's death was commemorated in Turkey, while Turkey's fate was discussed in Berlin . Few nations bothered to mark the 22nd anniversary of the World War I Armistice this week, an irony made more...
...Department a queer situation obtained. Many a Roosevelt voter had in his heart cast half of his ballot for Secretary Cordell Hull. The Willkie campaign had courted Mr. Hull, would perhaps have asked him to stay on for a period. But the long friction between Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles could not go on indefinitely. Furthermore, Roosevelt was expected, after the usual six-to-nine-month period of hesitation, to nudge Hull out for a younger, more aggressive man. Yet it was said that the grave old Tennessean would never leave his post, if Welles...
Chilean Heavyweight Arturo Godoy drew order number 3981 in the draft, fumed: "I want to fight . . . Hitler, Mussolini or Joe Louis, any way, any time." Disgusted at being called "Liz" for short, Elizabeth Emerson, 16, of Summit, N. J., daughter of Sumner B. Emerson, vice president of Morgan Stanley...
...rivals, printed a front-page cartoon and editorial headed "Three Families Drive America to War." Promptly Michigan's Representative Roy Orchard Woodruff (Republican) lashed out in Congress at "this sort of propaganda played up at a time like this for purposes of political demagoguery." To Representative Woodruff SECommissioner Sumner Pike, retired oilman and onetime vice president of Wall Street's Case. Pomeroy & Co., explained: "In some way unknown to the commission, a copy of the report or the summary was obtained by a newspaper correspondent. . . . When the report had reached its final stages it was supervised...
...Facing the possibility of a quick British defeat, the U. S. in August: 1. Fortified Bermuda. 2. Sent Sumner Welles abroad on an appeasement mission. 3. Transferred the battle fleet to the Atlantic. 4. Started negotiations with Canada for military cooperation. 5. Began fortifying the Canadian border...