U.S. At War, Oct. 25, 1943

For the first time in nearly eleven years, distinguished Diplomat Sumner Welles spoke last week as a private citizen. His words were historic.

Freed from the strait jacket of State Department caution—he was fired as Under Secretary two months ago in a clash of personality and policy with rock-ribbed Secretary Cordell Hull—Sumner Welles could speak his full mind on the problem of U.S. foreign policy.

TIME herewith presents a digest of his remarkable speech, made in Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel at the 28th anniversary luncheon of the Foreign Policy Association. Sumner Welles chose first to urge, upon the Administration which had found him...