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Benjamin Sumner Welles (October 14, 1892 – September 24, 1961) was an American government official and diplomat. He was a major foreign policy adviser to President Franklin D. Roosevelt and served as Under Secretary of State from 1936 to 1943, during Roosevelt's presidency.
Há 6 dias · Despite his prominence, his reputation among diplomatic historians has been overshadowed by the sex scandal that occasioned his demise. Conversely, he has attracted cursory attention from scholars of the history of sexuality. This article examines that historiographic dialectic.
The Sumner Welles who broke his health working for Franklin Roosevelt and then, through personal weakness, fell victim to political intriguers was born to a family molded for three...
By analyzing literature about Welles, conducting a close reading of sources that catalogued Welles’s sexuality, and applying an inter-sectional lens to the scandal that ended his career, this article seeks to redress historiographic misunderstandings and omissions about Welles.
His 1937 peace program, also known as the Welles plan, represented one of America's most significant international endeavors of the decade, while his 1940 mission to Europe, where he met with Hitler and Mussolini, was Roosevelt's most serious attempt to achieve a negotiated solution to the war.
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14 de mai. de 2018 · Learn about Sumner Welles, an American diplomat who helped create the good-neighbor policy with Latin America in the 1930s. Find out his achievements, challenges, books, and death date.
1 de jun. de 2007 · In 1920, Sumner Welles—at twenty-seven, the youngest man to be appointed chief of the Latin American division since its inception in 1909—began a four-year campaign to check anti-American sentiment and increase U.S. authority in and around the Dominican Republic.
