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Welles Mission in Europe and Roosevelt Policy Debate
The text recounts President Roosevelt over ruling plans to send Sumner Welles on a peace mission during the early war phase, detailing Welles's discussions in Rome Berlin Paris and London, the rumors sparked by the trip, and the president and the narrator's efforts to frame a cautious, information gathering approach rather than a peace proposition. It covers warnings about false hopes, the policy stance against premature peace, and the later reporting of Welles's conversations with major leaders and the pope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Welles
Jay Pierrepont Moffat
Department
Rome
Berlin
Paris
London
Pope Pius XI
Roosevelt
Sumner Welles
Hull
Thelwelves
White House
United States
Eveiiale
Hitler
Mussolini
Furs
Italy
France
Germany
Great Britain
Christian Foreign Service Convocation
Tolay
Lothian
Britain
Nkady
TNS
Washington
Mussqlini
Daladier
Chamberlain
Pope