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...Axel Wenner-Gren also said: "If there should happen to be a stalemate and a negotiated peace, I might be of great use. I have a good standing in Germany...
Cuzco's Doctor. Last year Axel Wenner-Gren sailed the Southern Cross to Peru, where he was received as a king. He financed an archeological expedition, gave Peru a million-acre public park, named for the donor, who felt warmly in his heart that Peru would not soon forget the name of Wenner-Gren. He was proud as a peacock when the University of Cuzco gave him an honorary doctorate, and the soft-footed servants who now minister to him and his wife in Mexico have been trained to call him "Doctor...
...York State Senator, who was also cutting a wide swath in Mexico. Personable Mr. Hastings, who somehow came to be known to Mexican bigwigs as a U.S. ex-Senator, was promoting a "hundred-million-dollar syndicate," purportedly backed by U.S. cash, to industrialize Mexico. And there was Axel Wenner-Gren with more money...
...contemplated all this with a bilious eye was George Messersmith, now U.S. Ambassador to Mexico. Messersmith had spent a long time in Germany and had known about Axel Wenner-Gren in the prewar years. Another non-admirer, in Washington, was Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, whom Wenner-Gren had once mysteriously dogged all the way to Italy and Germany. As time went on, the suspicions of the State Department deepened. Suddenly, in January, the Department swung its club and Axel Wenner-Gren found himself on the blacklist of persons with whom the U.S. would have no further dealings. Great...
...Axel Wenner-Gren has not the manner of a geopolitical Machiavelli. Tall, slender, white-haired, blue-eyed and bronzed, he has an air of frankness and modesty...