The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1941-06-19

tional travelling men of America.
These men are the eyes and
the state department and the arm
are message bearers to and from,
the heads of governments on
both sides of the eastern heni-
sphere.
Not since the late Col E. M
House made his historic trip for
President Wilson have the jun
kets of personal representatives"
of the President or the govern
ment attracted such wide atten-
ton.
Certainly the first section of
this chapter will have to be de-
voted to Sumner Welles. under
secretary OF state, for it was his
great flying trip of Europe in the
spring of 1910 on which the world
pinned futile hopes of avoiding
the catastrophe of this last year.
Welles, the United States No. /
diplomat, interviewed Chamber
lain, Lord Halifax and the King
in England; Hitler in Berlin;
Daladier and Lebrun in Paris;
and Mussolini in Italy and came
back to give the most complete
picture that could then be as
sembled by one man of the ma
tons poised for battle.
Willkie Most Unusual
Most unusual of all the "un-
official observer" of course. was
Wendell L. Willkie. Mr. Willkie
went to bomb-torn England to
take a look-see for himself but
he went with the Presidents
, blessing and his letter of intro
duction to Winston Churchill. He
returned to give this country the
unique sight of a defeated can
didate of the opposition party
reporting, in private, his views
and observations TO the man who
had defeated him.
Then went Harry Hopkins, not
only perhaps TO see and hear AMI
report but to prepare himself, by
| intimate knowledge, for the her
cuIean task OF administering the
81, 000, 10000 lend-lease bill. On
that trip, too. Hopkins laid the
] foundation for his conclusion
i that Hitler can't win.
Col. William J. wild Bid Dom
ovan combed the Mediterranean.
the Balkans. the Near East and
Africa for Secretary OF Navy
Frank Knox besides doing eye
and ear work sor the secretary in
England.
| DR. Thomas Parran. surgeon
general of the United States.
went 10 England TO study what
war rations and repeated bomb
ings had done TO the health OF
/ the nation and came back with
the amazing story that even the
worst of the bomb shelters were
not as unsanitary as some Of our
glurns and some Of the boom
towns that rnsishroofned out OF
national defense.
Tcok Long Way Around
Most prominent of a battalion
Of observers in the zones Of &C
ton for the army, navy and ma
rine corps Is Capt James Ropse.
veil Of the marines. who. took
the long way round TO get 10
Cairo and the battle Of The east
ern Mediterranean
w. Ayeri1 Hartman. although
ne has ihe title of minister. ~.
longs ia sisss category too. for ne
IS President RooseYeis's personal
representative in expediting aid
10 Britain Even n0w, ne Ii on q
iunket 70 Egyp. which gives him
Al rating among tire Presidents
travelling men Ambassador John
lG Winant's recent return to
report ard confes should pus
him into the chapter. loo.
| In tire opposite direction went
L.sughIin casrrie 10 epnfer. for
the Prensaerat, with Eeneraiissius0
Chang Eaa-Shek in Chungkinx
and 70 bxane back his 0n-tfse-
scene repcrt of ths war In tire
Orient These are oniy the ranss
outstanding ~ the ere and ear
Imen There are sxures 81 iesser