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...return-signing the bill under which Lender Jesse Jones was readying loans for Finland ($20,000,000), Sweden ($15,000,000), Norway ($10,000,000)-he emphasized his preoccupation with foreign affairs. No one near him doubted that his heart & mind were with high-domed Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles in Europe...
...night last week a tall, tired, impassive U. S. diplomat, whose habitual uncommunicativeness was intensified by the fact that he had a cold, got to the Stazione Termini in Rome and went at once to his private car. One last Italian functionary arrived to bid him farewell. Then Sumner Welles, U. S. Under Secretary of State, in Europe on a special mission for President Roosevelt, turned in, although his train did not leave until...
...clothes to emphasize that it was an unofficial visit) was followed by a dinner given by the U. S. Ambassador to Rome. He had lunched on the second day with the French and British Ambassadors and had tea with the one from Germany. And then the first hazard in Sumner Welles's mission to Europe had been negotiated. Some kind of diplomatic history had been made: for the first time in two years pro-U. S. headlines appeared in the controlled Italian press, crowding in among headlines announcing that the Axis was up again, that an Italian-German Cultural...
...unseasonable coincidence, fine warm weather dotted a Europe that was emerging from its coldest winter in a hundred years. As Sumner Welles & party arrived in Rome, the almond trees were blossoming; people were singing a new song, Wind, wind, take me away with you; crowds were flocking to see Three Smart Girls, to hear Ravel's L'Heure Espagnole...
PARIS -- Premier Edouard Daladier today outlined to Sumner Welles, President Roosevelt's enjoy, a five-point Allied program calling for the crushing of Hitlerism regardless of cost...