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...made the declaration after a half hour conference with Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles...
...Berlin's foreign correspondents, one day last week, by Professor Victor Bruns, an authority on international law who served as Germany's counsel at the World Court. The map to which he referred appeared in the background of a picture of U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, French Premier Paul Reynaud and an interpreter -taken in M. Reynaud's office on the occasion of Mr. Welles's visit to Paris, subsequently published on the cover of UIllustration...
Professor Bruns got pretty angry. Frenchmen might lie, but photographs could not. This picture was incontrovertible proof that Sumner Welles and Paul Reynaud had discussed a post-war settlement. See, said the professor, how the Allies planned to dismember Germany and friends: Poland restored and enlarged at the expense of Germany and Russia; Schleswig-Holstein to Denmark; German cessions to Belgium, The Netherlands, France, Switzerland; Austria restored with an Adriatic outlet at Trieste; Yugoslavia enlarged at Italy's expense; Italy's vital Dodecanese Islands to Greece; Turkey increased at Bulgaria's expense...
...looking and listening could do it, in those 41 days Sumner Welles had become the best-informed man in the world on the world's biggest problem-World War II. By special train, airplane and steamer he had covered 14,000 miles; he had conferred with two Kings-George VI of Britain, Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy; one Führer; one Duce; two Prime Ministers-Chamberlain, Daladier (and Reynaud, successor to Daladier); with the Foreign Ministers and officialdom of all four countries, opposition party spokesmen of the Allies; with Pope Pius...
When Foreign Minister Josef Beck and other leaders of a beaten Poland fled from Warsaw last September, they left in a hurry. According to the German Foreign Office, they left behind them some very interesting documents. Last week the Germans published these documents-day after Sumner Welles, just back from Europe, made his undivulged report to the President...