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Summer Welles: FDR's Global Strategist.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...official was, unmistakably, Benjamin Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state and arguably...life. With the publication of Sumner Welles we can see that those allegations...has finally arrived. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born to a well-to-do Massachusetts...
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Secret Affairs: Franklin Roosevelt, Cordell Hull and Summer Welles.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 6/22/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...official was, unmistakably, Benjamin Sumner Welles, undersecretary of state and arguably...life. With the publication of Sumner Welles we can see that those allegations...has finally arrived. Benjamin Sumner Welles was born to a well-to-do Massachusetts...
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The right questions: what the candidates should be asked.(questions to ask presidential and congressional candidates)
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 7/1/1996; ; 700+ words
; In November 1942, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles learned authoritatively from the U.S. legation in Switzerland...extermination of all Jews in Nazi-controlled Europe. Welles confided this information to Dr. Stephen Wise, the country...
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The Wise Man.(Dean Acheson: A Life in the Cold War)(Book review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 11/20/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...nostalgia for the good old days, when graduates could aspire to become Wise Men after the fashion of Averell Harriman, Sumner Welles, and McGeorge Bundy. Dean Acheson was the most remarkable of this class of leaders; his wit and intellect placed him...
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FDR and the Creation of the U.N.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 3/22/1999; ; 640 words
; ...Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Under Secretary Sumner Welles sought to avoid Wilson's mistakes and to create a bipartisan...of Cordell Hull and analyze his bitter quarrel with Welles, but they do not explain that much of the confusion...
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Paradise denied: the State Department, the Caribbean, and the Jews of Europe.
Magazine article from: The National Interest; 12/22/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...principal sources of that pressure. To counteract this movement, Secretary of State Cordell Hull, Undersecretary of State Sumner Welles, Assistant Secretary George Messerschmidt, and chief of the State Department's division for European Affairs, J. Pierrepont...
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Australia's war in American eyes: Owen Dixon in Washington, 1942-43. (History).(Australian Minister to Washington)(edited excerpt from Philip Ayres' "Owen Dixon")(Excerpt)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 4/1/2003; ; 700+ words
; ...full day in Washington, June 3, Evatt introduced him to Secretary of State Cordell Hull and Hull's Under-Secretary Sumner Welles, and took him to lunch at the Supreme Court with Mr Justice Frankfurter, a close friend of Roosevelt's and soon to...
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I've tilted at windmills, and the windmills won.
Magazine article from: Washington Monthly; 3/1/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...used Lorena Hickock, But he also reached down around his Cabinet secretaries and personally quizzed underlings (like Sumner Welles). Outsiders and insiders-the pincer effect. Ironically, even at the Peace Corps, Charlie operated from a ba
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State and Revolution in Cuba: Mass Mobilization and Political Change, 1920-1940.(Book Review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2003; ; 518 words
; ...Grau San Martin, introduced social legislation not tolerable to the Cuban oligarchy or to the U.S. minister in Havana, Sumner Welles. Into this vacuum stepped Sergeant Fulgencio Batista. It was Batista, according to Whitney, who became the architect...
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Strange Victory.(Review)
Magazine article from: National Review; 10/25/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...Roosevelt was wary. Frivolous as ever, Mrs. Roosevelt wrote Churchill off as a reactionary while White House advisers like Sumner Welles and Harold Ickes thought he was a drunk. Openly contemptuous of Churchill, Ambassador Joseph Kennedy believed that...
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