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Last week the continued story of Sumner Welles's mission to Europe was no match for dramatic, high-pressure, Russian-Finnish peace moves in the Baltic (see p. 19). Only the U. S. State Department knew how deeply the U. S. was involved in those moves; officially the U. S. had neither asked nor been asked to mediate. Said White House Spokesman Steve Early, defining the attitude of President Roosevelt: "He didn't close any door, but he didn't open any door either...
Meanwhile Sumner Welles continued his overshadowed way. Last week when he got to Paris there were 200 mobile guards at the Gare de Lyon, 200 extra plainclothesmen, military motorcyclists to escort him to the Ritz Hotel. The Renault he rode in had steel armor, bulletproof glass, bulletproof tires. Paris correspondents, noting that George VI had received just such elaborate precautions, rushed 50 strong to his first press conference, where polite Sumner Welles reduced them to silence by saying that he could say nothing...
...Conferred with Deputy Rudolf Hess, No. 3 Nazi. If there seemed to Sumner Welles any truth in the Hermann Rauschning theory (The Revolution of Nihilism) that the Nazi revolution does not depend on Hitler, is in fact a Continental upheaval-then Rudolf Hess (third in line of succession to the Führership of the National Socialist Revolution) was the man to talk...
...could tolerate an enemy seizure of the Panama Canal; demands that Britain give up its financial power-in short, an end of Britain's power, an end of the British Empire, as the price of peace. Whether or not the Führer shouted such claims to Sumner Welles in the Chancellery, they were certainly in the inspired stories from Berlin. The arrival of the official U. S. envoy had smoked out the German Revolution's forthright demands...
...Finns and King Haakon of Norway hurried to Stockholm; as Premier Molotov in Moscow gave a three and one-half hour lunch to U. S. Ambassador Steinhardt; as diplomatic life all over Europe speeded up in the wake of the Welles mission, it was plain that, although Sumner Welles made no statement, raised no hopes, he looked to many a European like the agent of a going concern who had entered the realm of disorder. Here & there peace moves looked up despite official frowns-membership of Union Now jumped to 10,000 in Britain; reports of Hitler's real...