The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-27

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 For exactly ten years Welles has been the Presidents chief ad- wiser and administrator on the diplomatic front. He initiated Roosevelt's highly successful Good Neighbor policy, took the rap on a lot of things he didn't initiate, and, like Henry Wallace, never made move without knowing the President thoroughly approved.
 But like Wallace, Welles is now being busted. AS with Wallace also, Welles' case involves show down with the conservative, or southern wing, of the Democratic party. Where the President picked between Jesse Jones and Wallace i,! regard to Economic Warfare, he has now chosen between Cordell Hull and Sumner Welles.
 HULL DEMANDED SHOWDOWN
 Inside story is that Secretary Hull, spurred on by Mrs. Hull, called for 8 showdown with the President, declaring that either his Undersecretary of State must re- sign or he, Hull, would get out
 The President has known Welles since the latter was boy in knee brooches. Welles and Mrs. Roosevelt had the same godmother. Welles was a page boy at the Roosevelt wedding. Later, when Roosevelt was as- sistant secretary of the Navy, he got Welles his first appoint ment to the diplomatic service. Welles had virtually grown up under Roosevelt's tutelage.
 Faced with the Hull ultimatum, however, the President went on his Great Lakes cruise, with Jim- my Byrnes and Harry Hopkins, to think it over. When he got back he cast his choice with the conservative wing of the party. He accepted Welles' resignation.
 To get the full significance of this decision, it is necessary to go back and understand the rela- tionship between Welles and Hull.
 Actually. no two men .ap- peared to be more ideally suited for diplomatic teamwork, Hull, now oyer 70. not in good health. away from the State Depart ment six months last year, need ed a young, vigorous under secretary. He has always stated that he was ;iot an admipistra- tor, did not want to be tied down with details, wanted to devote his time to trade treaties and major policy.
 MRS. HULL'S ROLE
 But the two men got pulled apart, partly by the President himself. partly by Mrs. Hull, part ly by the sycophantic career dip lomats who played up to Hull's pride and poured in poison against Welles.
 The President, a very busy man. found it difficult to listen to Sec- retary Hull's rambling, indecisive diplomatic presentations; so got in the habit of calling WelleS to the White House. Welles could summarize a situation in France, Germany O. the Argentine in five minutes and recommend action. So Welles and the President, al- ways his own secretary of state. grew closer and closer in handling foreign policy.
 This was one of the things which especially griped Mrs. Hull, And had it not been for the resentment which she and the career clique poured into the old gentleman's gullible ears, it is doubtful if the State De- partment feud would have de- veloped.
 One series of incidents which particularly ranked was over the Good Neighbor policy. Welles had been in the State Department un- der Charles Evans Hughes, and Welles really developed the first seeds of the Good Neighbor poll icy. For 1t was WelleS who en- gineered the withdrawal of the American Marines from the De- minican Republic and Nicaragua, and who first laid down the pol icy that American troops should not land on Latin soil.
 GOOD NEIGHBOR WELLES
 Later while Roosevelt was still governor of New York, Welles sold him on the Good Neighbor pol icy and helped write the Demo- cratic platform adopted at the Chicago convention.
 It was Secretary Hull, how ever, who attended the first Pen
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 Good Neighbor planks,. at
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