Word: wellesely
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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To this double negative, Secretary Hull last week, again with the help of Under Secretary Sumner Welles's forceful pen, dispatched an answer. He declared that expropriation without compensation is "bald . . . unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair...
In neither note did Mr. Hull mention President Cardenas' far larger expropriations of foreign-owned oil properties. These seizures, resulting in grave loss of markets and taxes, have undermined Mexico's national currency to a cracking point (TIME, Aug. 29). The Hull-Welles stratagem of confining their claims...
Not without misgivings Assistant Secretary of State George S. Messersmith appeared two months ago before the House Appropriations Committee to ask Congress to enable his Department to do something "we would perhaps prefer not to do." What Mr. Messersmith asked for and got was money to establish two new State...
The modest size of this kitty, said Mr. Welles, was proof that the new Division "is not a propaganda agency." Further proof was the State Department's choice of a Cultural Relations chief: Dr. Ben Mark Cherrington of the University of Denver. A onetime University of California football coach...
*Under-Secretary Sumner Welles wrote it.