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...served at Warsaw, Berne, Tokyo, Constantinople, Sydney) prevent Jay Pierrepont Moffat from being a lady novelist's version of the ideal diplomat: he goes out socially a great deal, plays flawless bridge, is esteemed as a dinner companion, is perfectly groomed, properly reserved. But because he traveled with Sumner Welles on his European trip last winter, has the British Empire as part of his regular beat and is one of the top policy-making State Department officials close to the President, the meaning of his appointment was plain: Ottawa loomed large at last among the world's capitals...
...Descendant of Gouverneur Morris, brother of Manhattan's City Council President Newbold Morris, first cousin of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...White House three days before German parachutists plummeted down near Rotterdam and The Hague. To reporters summoned to a surprise press conference in his private car, he said that nervousness over impending developments in Europe was taking him back to Washington. At the State Department Under Secretary Sumner Welles and Assistant Secretary Adolf Berle worked late, let it be known that the crisis in The Netherlands was the reason. As quietly as a family doctor not yet ready to tell the family the worst, soft-spoken Gordell Hull tiptoed into Washington from a brief rest at Atlantic City, waited...
Such hardihood was not welcome to Melville's time. But Melville had a spiritual successor in William Graham Sumner, a hardheaded thinker who began at Yale in 1872 a study he called the "science of society." Professor Gabriel is as trenchant, critical and readable on Sumner as he is on Adams, James, Royce and 19th-20th Century thinkers generally. And he rescues Sumner's importance from the forgetful obloquy it has suffered (outside New Haven) in recent years...
...Liberty," said Sumner, "is not a boon, it is a conquest, and if we ever get any more, it will be because we make it or win it." He fought the sentimentality and venality of the Gilded Age, wrote his revolutionary Folkways (1906) to show the determining effect of social customs on conduct. "His conviction," says Gabriel, "was that the forlorn and probably futile hope of democracy was that the men who profess it should understand what they are doing...