Sumner Welles, very close to both FDR and Eleanor Roosevelt, is being forced out at the State Department because of a homosexuality scandal which started in 1940. The story has become so widespread that Welles must leave.
Note that the press does not print a word of this. The facts remain hidden until 1956.
An article in the 8/26 post, titled “Capital Convinced Welles Resigned,” said only that Welles “suffered a recurrence of an old illness.”