MR SUMNER WELLES

Wairarapa Times-Age, 5 March 1940, Page 5

MR SUMNER WELLES

BRITISH VIEW OP TOUR NO PURPOSE OF NEGOTIATION. CORDIAL WELCOME ASSURED. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, March 3. While Mr Sumner Welles will be very cordially received when he eventually visits London, and the newspapers here have fully reported his movements since he reached Europe, neither the Press nor the public displays very much interest or curiosity in the different stages of his tour. Tiie reason for this is “simply that it has been clearly recognised by the British public, as well as in official circles, that as Mr Roosevelt's declarations have made plain, Mr Welles is in Europe for no purpose of negotiation.” His journey is seen as arising naturally from Mr Roosevelt’s wish to have—to place alongside reports available in the State Department from United States representatives in the various capitals—a composite impression created upon a single mind by contact with all the principal European leaders. ; Everything will be done to give Mr Welles,' when he comes to London, the fullest and frankest explanation of the aims and purposes of the British Government and the British people in the present conflict. ______