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...Said the New York Herald Tribune: "A fairly brutal sacrifice of American foreign policy to Roosevelt fourth-term politics. Secretary-Hull has the ear of Congress. . . . Mr. Welles has apparently had most of the ideas and the firmest grasp of any one in the State Department over the actual problems of the future...
...Said the Washington Post: "To be sure, Mr. Welles was one of the 'hosanna boys' or 'star-gazers,' as Mr. Hull stigmatizes the expositors of the Four Freedoms. . . . But in terms of ultimate loyalties, surely no sin of disloyalty could be chalked up against Mr. Welles on that account...
With much more justice Mr. Welles could return such a charge to his State Department chief." To the hubbub caused by Welles's resignation was added a hubbub of speculation over his possible successor. The candidate reportedly favored by Cordell Hull-onetime Ambassador-to-Italy Breckinridge Long - was certain to meet bitter opposition from those who think democratic aspirations are important. For Breckin ridge Long, whose swank parties were attended by the fanciest members of Ital ian society, has won no distinction by his opposition to Fascism. Other candidates for Sumner Welles's vacated job are Career-Diplomat...
...whoever gets the job, Cordell Hull will give the orders. The forced resignation of Sumner Welles made one thing unmistakably clear: in the archaic rook ery that houses the U.S. State Department Cordell Hull is boss...
Human. The political cemetery is full of headstones carved with the names of those who have crossed the will of the feuding, cussing Tennessean who heads the State Department. But if Cordell Hull found any pleasure in having sacked Sumner Welles, whom the New York Post called "a symbol of international cooperation in our foreign affairs," last week he gave no sign...