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Political. No such considerations restrained the U.S. press. Its endorsement of Sumner Welles was surprisingly widespread, its condemnation of Franklin Roosevelt and Cordell Hull surprisingly severe...
...onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain to meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat George S. Messersmith, onetime Minister to Austria...
...whoever gets the job, Cordell Hull will give the orders. The forced resignation of Sumner Welles made one thing unmistakably clear: in the archaic rook ery that houses the U.S. State Department Cordell Hull is boss...
Human. The political cemetery is full of headstones carved with the names of those who have crossed the will of the feuding, cussing Tennessean who heads the State Department. But if Cordell Hull found any pleasure in having sacked Sumner Welles, whom the New York Post called "a symbol of international cooperation in our foreign affairs," last week he gave no sign...
...Cordell Hull's anger cleared nothing up, said none of the things that needed urgently to be said. In dropping Sumner Welles he had dropped the chief architect of the U.S.'s Good Neighbor Policy in South America, an opponent of those who would do business with Fascists on the basis of expediency, a known and respected advocate of U.S. cooperation in international affairs. The U.S. still awaits a clarification of its foreign policy and the forced resignation of Sumner Welles made an already murky issue even more obscure. Until that issue is plain, angry Cordell Hull...