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...Sumner Welles, official U. S. roving factfinder, arrived back in Rome after a trip to Berlin, Paris, London. Without delay he saw Foreign Minister Count Galeazzo Ciano for 70 minutes, King Vittorio Emanuele for 45, Il Duce for 75. Mr. Welles held his tongue, but postponed his sailing back to the U. S. for a day. U. S. Secretary of State Hull denied in Washington that Mr. Welles had acted as an intermediary in Europe's quarrels...
...Germans were exultant. A shortwave radio from Berlin reminded hearers that Italy was not neutral but merely "non-belligerent," volunteered that the "subject of the talk was the problems which concern the present situation." An Italian radio gave a clue when it admitted that the "meeting is related to Sumner Welles's presence in Rome." But Germany was pointedly reminded that she would be deceiving herself if she thought "she can influence Italy's policy of freedom of action...
...much like a Westerner's idea of a Chinese banker that wily and subtle-minded Americans have difficulty in believing he is as simple and direct as he is. Of average height, moderately fat, bespectacled, careful, shy of the press, close-mouthed (in the Calvin Coolidge rather than Sumner Welles sense), he has no hobbies, makes no picturesque Oriental remarks, works 24 hours a day at the unglamorous business of cementing U. S.-Chinese trade relations, and considers Chinese repayment of U. S. loans his personal responsibility. His pride: that China has repaid $2,300,000 of her previous...
...hour talk with Premier Daladier brought a pungent restatement of the French point of view: that there could be no peace so long as the Nazi regime remained in power; bitter experience had revealed that Nazi pledges did not count. Crisscrossing French political and economic life, Sumner Welles saw President Lebrun, the President of the Senate, the President of the Chamber of Deputies, ex-Premier Socialist Leon Blum, the leaders of the Polish Government in exile (who hastily put together an advance copy of the Polish Black Book, which catalogues German atrocities in Poland...
...came out that while yachting off Nassau last month, Swedish Axel Wenner-Gren received a cable from Field Marshal Hermann Goring telling him to come home and mediate the Russo-Finnish peace. He sailed to Italy on board the same boat as U. S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, proceeded to Berlin at about the same time. Having made mints from vacuum cleaners and refrigerators, Axel Wenner-Gren is influential in money markets, but his only experience in international crises was accidental-while cruising in his huge Southern Cross he came on the sinking Athenia and rescued some...