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...already running full force, again warned the State Department: "If he does not take over certain of the activities of Dr. Friedhelm Drager [German vice consul in Manhattan] ... he will probably occupy the position of confidential fifth-column adviser to Consul General Borchers." Last week Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles told his press conference that the case of Friedrich Ried was "under consideration...
...stand by what I agreed with Sumner Welles, and that is that sound economic reconstruction and conditions can be arrived at in Europe and in the world only in cooperation with America...
Japan reacted to the embargo violently, but alert Foreign Minister Matsuoka was a jump ahead of his own countrymen. He instructed Ambassador to the U. S. Kensuke Horinouchi to call on Sumner Welles and lodge a protest. He instructed Spokesman Suma to use strong words. That master of anticlimax told reporters: "Our reaction will be very great." But the most serious thing Yosuke Matsuoka did was to let word get about that Japan might have to retaliate by cutting off U. S. supplies of rubber and tin from the East Indies...
...first demonstration had marched such men as Sumner Welles, Under Secretary of State, making his quadrennial obeisance to democracy, forcing a wan smile as the Kelly hoodlums crumpled his creases, his correct collar wilted and even askew. But the second demonstration was given over to the "muggs," with a sprinkling of such earnest souls as Maury Maverick, Claude Pepper, Movie-Actor Melvyn Douglas (who hopes soon to be Governor of California...
...Sumner Welles...