Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Long overdue was the announcement Sumner Welles made last week: that the U.S. Government would at once call a United Nations conference to study the problem of freedom from want. For his significant speech the Under Secretary of State chose a significant place: Toronto, a center of strong Empire sympathies...
Sumner Welles had gone to Toronto to get an honorary Doctor of Laws degree. Then, to an audience of students and Dominion bigwigs, Sumner Welles delivered the address that reduced months of generalizations to something tangible.
Colonel Beigbeder talked long with Sumner Welles at the State Department, went with him for a chat with President Roosevelt. Guesses were that Colonel Beigbeder was as interested in U.S. foreign policy as in U.S. military might; that U.S. officials were as interested in what Beigbeder had to say about...
When Emeny took over the Council in 1935 it had 350 members, 90% of whom were women. Its activities consisted of four luncheon meetings a year, with an average attendance of 100. Today's figures: more than 3,500 members (about half of them men), weekly meetings, an average...
Last night's meeting of the Council on Post-War Problems clearly defined the threat which victorious Soviet Russia can present to a successful peace settlement. It served to make doubly welcome Sumner Welles' disclosure of plans for a United Nations conference on post-war problems in the near future...