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Franklin Roosevelt quickly invited the four sponsors to a White House conference, where the resolution was discussed with Harry Hopkins and Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles. The President approved it, in theory. But apparently the Administration was loth to touch off a Congressional debate: a little movement developed almost at once to stop the resolution's introduction. This was of no avail -Joe Ball has a hard jaw. While the resolution could never bind the Senate's vote on specific details of a peace treaty, it would be, if passed by a two-thirds majority, definite progress...
Last week Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles set part of the record straight. In the past two years, he said, the U.S. had shipped only 1,942,000 barrels of petroleum products to Spain (normally the 17 Eastern states consume 1,250,000 barrels daily). Further, the U.S. had sent no oil at all since Feb. 19, 1942, has had an arrangement with Britain whereby Spanish vessels could carry limited quantities of South American oil through the British blockade. Said Sumner Welles: "Adequate guarantees have been furnished . . . that none of these petroleum products will leave Spain. . . . The transportation...
Element of Frankness. Most people wanted to know whether the Ambassador had been instructed to say his piece. Said Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, "Whatever was said in this reported press conference was said without prior consultation with or reference to this Government." In effect: pipe down, Admiral Standley...
Chile's Ambassador Rodolfo Michels and the State Department's Under Secretary Sumner Welles, apostle of hemisphere unity, last week signed a Lend-Lease agreement in Washington. The agreement did not greatly improve Chile's actual prospects of getting needed industrial equipment while there is a shipping shortage (see p.27). But the general warmth of Chilean and U.S. relations moved stern, unsmiling President Juan Antonio Rios to make an extraordinary statement in Santiago: he came out for a fourth term for Good Neighbor Roosevelt. President Rios, now in his first (four-year) term, expressed the hope that...
...Honorable Sumner Welles is scheduled to address the final dinner of the Inter-American Institute at the Hotel Statler this coming Monday, March...