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...John P. Kennedy, Jr., Griff P. Knapp II, Melvern K. Leisy, Thomas W. Lesure, Philip Bevins, Scott B. Lilly, Jr., Singerly C. McCartney, Joseph B. McGrath, Francis P. Maguire, Edgar J. Mongan, Jr., George Mostow, David S. Nivison, William L. Nutting, George R. Price, Thomas Raphael, Broaddus E. Robinson, Sumner M. Rothstein, Phillip J. Scanlon, Dorraine W. Slingerland, Claude E. Smith, Jr., Joseph B. Smith, William R. Snow, Jr., Howard N. Stone, William V. Suckie, Kurt P. Tauber, Fenton Taylor, Jr., D'Arcy G. Van Bokkelen, Yang Wang, Thomas R. White, Theodore H. Wilson, Jr., Leonard Wolsky, and Hollis...
...Sumner Welles, Acting Secretary of State, announced-in his own inimitably impersonal language-that the U. S. will no longer accept as accredited representatives of foreign countries any agents to whom other American nations have seen fit to give the boot...
...remarks about the Belgian surrender. But what mostly got up Washington's and London's ire was John Cudahy's implicit plea to Great Britain to weaken its blockade, to the U. S. to press the British to do so. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles had Washington correspondents in for a press conference, tucked in his chin, lit into his old friend John Cudahy in the strongest terms that diplomatic law allows...
...President Roosevelt ordered an embar go on aviation gasoline to all countries outside the Western Hemisphere (chief targets: Japan, Spain). Dutifully Japanese Ambassador Kensuke Horinouchi in Washington handed Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles a formal note of protest. Spain (where posters called for a return of the Philippines) protested...
...great pleasure to be sailing on a ship flying the American flag." In Washington it gave the State Department jitters that British warships were said to be following the Excalibur to guard the Duke from seizure by German or Italian war craft. U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles declared it would be an "inconceivable" violation of U. S. neutrality if the Excalibur were "convoyed" by British warships...