About a month ago, Sumner Welles wrote a few South American friends that he had resigned as Under Secretary of State, took a train for swank Bar Harbor. But Welles's resignation has not yet been announced: no successor has been named.
Replacing Welles is as difficult an appointment as Franklin Roosevelt has ever had to make. To be successful, the new Under Secretary should be:
1) A skillful administrator. Power-jealous Cordell Hull has been bringing more & more under State Department control the many agencies that deal with foreign countries. Last week even Foreign Food Administrator Herbert Lehman, who...
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