Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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One day last week, insiders said, two of the President's top czars consulted on the quiet with Secretary of State Cordell Hull. Subject: how to get rid of Under Secretary Sumner Welles.
Somehow the story leaked to the press. Perhaps it was planted. Insiders said that Sumner Welles then telephoned the White House to see if this deal had the Presidential blessing. Mr. Roosevelt is supposed to have answered no.
That noon good, grey Cordell Hull coolly and thoroughly denied the story as a fabrication. He was a little vague on the future status of Mr. Welles but clear that no such move was contemplated.
Mr. Welles icily told the press that the story was false.
> Department No. 2 is the province of chill, correct, intelligent Sumner Welles, whose ability is generally underestimated by the citizenry, who are either so awe struck or repelled by his attitude that they miss the man himself. Welles, product of Groton and Harvard, an ace career diplomat, is the author...