Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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> In factual terms the news was brief. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles had resigned.
> In political terms the news was complex. When would Franklin Roosevelt cease his appeasement of Southern Democrats, who had forced Welles's resignation, and how would U.S. foreign policy be affected?
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.
After the two reunite there is a series of lovers' quarrels between scenes in which Deanna sings songs which make the show. Charles Winninger adds a contributing role which bolsters the none too strong plot. Deanna's superb singing and Cotton's Orson Welles' inspired acting make the show about...