Evening star., 1940-02-18


horizon Of recent years.
And with it looks like diplomat Hollywood
extra.
Six feet three inches in height turned out by the best
valet in the Capital he the small details Of his
life with mpeccable poise On the bistering hot day last
summer that King George and Queen Elizabeth arrived in
Washington Mr. Wees hand with the rest Of official
Washington perfectly turned out to greet them But he did
not spend the balance Of the day in his sitting formal Clothes
Immediately after the ceremony Mr. Wees valet to his
ONCE with linen suit and In few minutes the Undersecretay
Of State ready to the routine his
appropriately dressed
Latin American Achievement.
say that he American diplomat is not to
detact from the Importance Of his chief Secretary Of State
Hull But the Secretary Of States job political and policy
making As Undersecretary Mr. Welles the practical
Job Of directing American diplomacy dealing
day with foreign diplomats
His greatest success has been in Latin America where
most of his and interest have during
the Is he has been the foreign field Last fall he had
his greatest triumph when, in the of only few days.
the 81 Latin American republics signed up with
States for joint neutrality policy Actually the directing
force at the conference Mr. Wee with TACT
took publicly modest role He given reception
Those who attended said it worth going all the
Panama to the glacial Wees being embraced ardent
Lans and what is responding with equal warmth.
More perhaps than other figure in the administration
Mr. Wees approxmates that of President Roose
velt They both State families the
small group that regards itself almost American
aristocacy Both Groton top-rankng preparatory
school in Massachusetts, and to Harvard And both oddly
.... Long Friend Of Roosevelt.
They have known each other for long time. As 13-
year-old in knee pants Weles attended the wedding Of
Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt The parallel ends however
with the similarity in their backgrounds is difficult to
imagine imperous Weles politician though
said to cherish Senator Maryland
where he makes his residence
welles' ambition beginning enter the
foreign service He admitted in 1915 not long after his
graduation from Harvard sent shortly afterward
tarv a
only years Toio long enough give him
interest in Far Eastern policy that he has maintained The
present tactic of keeping the japanese in daytoday
certainty the American attitude not little to Mr.
Wees who said to have inspired Ambassador Crews public
rebuke to Japan last October
From Toxic Mr. Welles was sent in 1917 to Buenos Aires
dcut post Secretary Of State, Robert
Lansing seeking to bring all of South America to
the allies side Argentina succumbed but nevertheless
supeos in the State Department and he called to Wash
ington be made assistant chief Of the Division Of Latin
American Affairs short time later he was made chief
-" Inter American Good Will.
This was an excellent vantage point following all the
of Latin American diplomacy Mr. Wees friend
Franklin Roosevelt in Washington Assistant Secretary
Of Navy and the two OF each other When
turned out Of oce and Charles Evans
Hughes head the State Department, Mr. weles
retained as chief Of the Latin American Division
Under leadership Division Of Latin American AZ
rapidly developed in importance and in diplomatic
tyty looking toward the cemenng Of goodneghbory rela
with peoples Of the southern republics Of the American
Hemisphere This always easy goal due to Latin
suspicious Of the Yankees"
Even though he Democrat, nominaly at any rate
the Republicans began to enust him with important missions
His rst conspicuous when he persuaded the
governments Of the i've Central American republics to sign
pact agreeing to deny recognition government seng
power by violence This effort check the ancient
Central American custom of palace revolution.
President Harding sent Mr.. Weles to the Dominican
Republic his special representative to for with
drawa Of American marines who had been installed to safe
guard American investments For President Coolidge he went
to Honduras make between revolutionary there
And again he visited sano Domingo this time with Charles g.
Dawes, to look into Dominican finances
All this time, according to astute observer who has
followed his closely than perhaps else
Wees developing hts concept OF Latin American
policy concept In which the marines figured not at AL His
admirers credit him with having invented the good neghbor
phrase And when Mr.. Roosevelt into once Mr. Weles
had the nppoy to put his ideas the test
Asant Secretary of STATE but he had BEEN In that ONCE