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...factual terms the news was brief. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles had resigned...
Factual. To Latin American diplomats in Washington, two days before the first report of his resignation got into print, came a rigidly proper letter from austerely correct Sumner Welles. Its import: Since Franklin Roosevelt had accepted his resignation, he hoped, most sincerely, that the ties of friendship would remain unchanged...
...Next day Sumner Welles slipped out of Washington, turned up at Maine's swank Bar Harbor, where he held to diplomatically correct silence. If Sumner Welles was going into limbo, he would meet it with the good form a son of Groton and Harvard is expected to show...
...State Department, M. André Philip then proposed, should be told first to achieve unity among its own leaders before applying for any recognition. From reliable American newspaper reports, he could announce that Mr. Cordell Hull did not get along well with Mr. Sumner Welles and did not like Mr. Adolf Berle; Mr. Sumner Welles did not like Mr. Hull and Mr. Berle; and Mr. Berle liked only himself...
...Hubbub. This State Department situation last week bubbled over into the press. The New Dealing New York Post, which has hammered away at the State Department, saw in Sumner Welles's position an analogy with Anthony Eden's predicament after Munich. The Post suggested that Mr. Welles resign, as did Mr. Eden, and "allow events and the people to vindicate him." The left-wing Nation offered as its remedy the dismissal of Mr. Hull, admitting in the next breath that such a thing could and would not take place...