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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.
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...
14 mai 2018 · Sumner Welles (1892-1961) was an American diplomat who helped create the good-neighbor policy with Latin America during the 1930s. He served as undersecretary of state under Franklin Roosevelt, attended several Latin American conferences, and wrote several books on U.S. foreign relations.
The Welles Declaration was a diplomatic statement issued on July 23, 1940, by Sumner Welles, the acting US Secretary of State, condemning the June 1940 occupation by the Soviet army of the three Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania – and refusing to diplomatically recognize their subsequent annexation into the Soviet ...
Sumner Welles was a key adviser to President Roosevelt on Latin American affairs and a proponent of the Good Neighbor Policy. He advocated for nonintervention, respect for sovereignty, and inter-American cooperation in the region.
Learn about Sumner Welles, a wealthy and influential foreign service officer who became FDR's adviser on Latin America and undersecretary of state. Find out how he helped draft the Atlantic Charter, faced controversy over his sexuality, and retired from public life.
