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...opportunity" resulting from the settlement of the bloody bout between Bolivia and Paraguay. Actually the favorable opportunity was created not in the jungles of the Chaco but in the long corridors of the U. S. State Department. Part of it was the long planning of Assistant Secretary of State Sumner Welles, one of the abler gentlemen in Latin-American diplomacy. More of it was a wholly new era of U. S.-Latin-American relations resulting from Cordell Hull's inability to be anything but a kindly judge from Tennessee. The rest of it was Franklin Roosevelt...
...floors of Argentina's most fashionable hotel, the Alvear Palace, on the famous Avenida Alvear, a block from Avenida Callao. Many of the rooms have been converted into clattering clerical offices to handle the official doings of the group, whose direction rests chiefly with Secretary Hull and Assistant Sumner Welles...
Like many good and patient men, Cordell Hull has played in good luck. In spite of his weakness in subordinates, when his chance came he had in Sumner Welles -wasp-waisted, double-breasted, Groton and Harvard, snobbish, capable and stiff-about the best man he could have had to take to Buenos Aires. In the long neglected field of Latin-American diplomacy, Sumner Welles is one of the few trained experts of the U. S.-a veteran of negotiations in Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Honduras, a fluent speaker of Spanish, a man liked by South American diplomats because he years...
...committee will consist of President Conant, Merle Fainsod, instructor in Government, Felix Frankfurter, Byrne Professor of Administrative Law, Richard V. Gilbert '23, instructor in Economics, Henry M. Hart, Jr. '26, assistant professor of Law, Arthur N. Holcombe '06, professor of Government, Edwin Mims, Jr., instructor in Government, Sumner H. Slichter, professor of Business Economics, Alan R. Sweezey '29, instructor of Economics, and John H. Williams, Nathaniel Ropes Professor of Political Economy...
Robert E. Wernick '38; Frank C. Wheelock, Jr. '39; William A. Whitcraft, Jr. '39; Frank S. White, Jr. '39; Abraham D. Whitman '37; John W. Whittlesey '37; Sumner Willard '37; Robert A. Williams '37; Samuel D. Winisky '38; Donald T. Wood '37; Norman Zamcheck '39; Morris Zief...