Word: welleses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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In 1917 he was sent to Buenos Aires, worked there two years, became fluent in Spanish. By 1921 he was Chief of the Latin-American Affairs Division in Washington, the youngest ever-28. But in 1925 Republican Calvin Coolidge made things so consistently uncomfortable for Democrat Sumner Welles that he...
Sumner Welles is naturally fitted to his work, tailored to it as accurately as his clothes are tailored to him. First and most important, he is tough-minded, with the quality of mental resilience that can absorb pressures and withstand shocks, a sort of intellectual defense-in-depth. He has...
Groton to Havana. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born in New York City on Oct. 14, 1892, the son of Benjamin and Frances Swan Welles. The senior Welles was something more than well-to-do. There is a legend (apocryphal) about the infant Sumner: that as a child at play, he...
At Harvard Welles studied economics, Iberian literature and culture. He deliberately prepared himself for the Foreign
Then he wrote his one book, a ponderous, lifeless, two-volume work which was technically a history of Santo Domingo, actually a careful indictment of U.S. foreign policy in the Hemisphere. The title was Naboth's Vineyard (Naboth was done out of his vineyard by King Ahab), and Welles...