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Today is the last day for receiving essays for the Dante, Sumner, and Bennett Prizes, and is also the last day for receiving theses of candidates for the degree of Ph.D. in 1940, except in the Divisions of Ancient Languages, of Modern Languages, of History, Government, and Economics, and in the Departments of Semitic Languages and History, of Far Eastern Languages, of Fine Arts, of Music, of Sociology, of Philosophy, and of Psychology...
Meanwhile, there are plenty of objections to the President's policies on other grounds. Sumner Welles and Myron Taylor have gone to Europe. Hopes have been raised for American cooperation with the Pope for peace, cooperation that would involve more than enough moral prestige to stop the belligerents, if properly applied. But nothing is done. Before we entered the last World War, says Professor Schlesinger, "through the President's (peace) efforts, the United States was rapidly attaining the moral leadership of the world." Has the President tied us so firmly to the Allies that Wilsonian idealism is beaten before...
...tells how a quadrumvirate-Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull, Sumner Welles, Adolf Augustus Berle Jr.-hammered out in the heat of the Munich crisis a U. S. foreign policy in the belief that war was coming. This policy was: 1) to prevent war if possible; 2) if war proved inevitable, to use every method short of war to assure victory for the democracies; 3) to recognize in their policy that "neutrals are parties at interest in a modern war, and particularly in the post-war settlement"; 4) to gain U. S. ends, political commitments in the western hemisphere, and possibly economic...
...went to Molyneux-business appeared to be as usual-less nakedness, more blacks and greys. Patterns are chosen subconsciously, while talking of Sumner Welles or Rumania...
...Suzy," the ultra-fashionable hatshop is the same old chaotic monkey house it always was. The floor like a carpenter's shop, ankle-deep in debris, straws, feathers, spangles and silk flowers. Clients sitting mesmerized before individual mirrors, Sumner Welles at last forgotten, while cunning workwomen pull roses or bows over their right eyes...