Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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.
> Said the New York Herald Tribune: "A fairly brutal sacrifice of American foreign policy to Roosevelt fourth-term politics. Secretary-Hull has the ear of Congress. . . . Mr. Welles has apparently had most of the ideas and the firmest grasp of any one in the State Department over the actual problems...
> Said the Washington Post: "To be sure, Mr. Welles was one of the 'hosanna boys' or 'star-gazers,' as Mr. Hull stigmatizes the expositors of the Four Freedoms. . . . But in terms of ultimate loyalties, surely no sin of disloyalty could be chalked up against Mr. Welles...
With much more justice Mr. Welles could return such a charge to his State Department chief." To the hubbub caused by Welles's resignation was added a hubbub of speculation over his possible successor. The candidate reportedly favored by Cordell Hull-onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain...
But 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.