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...clad in soiled seersucker, his mind in deep anxiety, this President who needs only a world peace crown to make him perhaps the most memorable ever, did not tell the press what he had done. When he reached Washington, Mr. Roosevelt saw his State Department chiefs, Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles. Before dinner they also drafted and dispatched appeals to Adolf Hitler and Poland's President Ignace Moscicki. But Mr. Roosevelt warned correspondents that his next morning's press conference would probably yield no major news. At the conference, he referred almost sarcastically to his "lovely hope...
...State Department sat dry, rigid Sumner Welles, Under Secretary, unbending, unhurried, whose iron purpose is always swathed in the precise delicacies of diplomatic chitchat, perfectly at home in the chill gloom of the State Department, its black waxed furniture, heavy blue drapes...
...friends long ago went to work to climb these big hurdles, many lesser ones. For the U. S.-glacial Sumner Welles, the high-domed Acting Secretary, and once Embassy Secretary to Argentina (1917-19); for Argentina-Señor Don Felipe Alberto Espil, the raven-haired Argentine Ambassador to the U. S., who wears his white-tie-&-tails with the nonchalance of Fred Astaire, who was once the Duchess of Windsor's constant dancing partner, whose barber lets no sign of his 52 years show around the ears...
Argentina suddenly changed its trade system to one of import control, freezing foreign exports to Argentina at 1934-36 levels, then setting import quotas. With this Argentina shift toward multilateral trade, Sumner Welles in Washington and Minister Lamas in Buenos Aires could announce with good grace a proposed trade agreement...
Over Cottage Farm Bridge, down Commonwealth Ave., through the Sumner Tunnel, and the lights of the Cyclone heave in sight,--bright lights, climbing, falling, twisting. "I've been on that fool roller coaster three times in a row!" someone boasts...