The Waterbury Democrat., 1938-03-03
Hello, Latin America! This Is United States
 BrOadca

l WdSuulS SUOiI, MAT. o-f1ellO, LdClIl America! This is Station U. s. A. broadcasting. The band will now play You're Sweetheart-if There Ever Was One" Lovely to Look At," Bring It On Down to My House, Honey" Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolff" and Ten Pretty Girls"
 That is to say, the Monroe
 Doctrine is being all polished up
 and Uncle Sam is getting a new
 haircut as he sets out to woo
 those brown-eyed babies below the
 Rio Grande. Any young gentle man who has ever cOurted a
 femela and, being turned down,
 gOse back to the girl he left be-
 hind him only to find that she suddenly also has become popular
 with the boys, will get the point. War Planes Welcomed
 Our State Department has had to give up the idea of an under standing with England since Eng land succumbed to the desires of Germany, Italy and Japan and now turns almost it's entire attention to Miss Latin America with the hope that we can persuade her to remain cool to the blandishments of such fascist fellows as MT. Hitler and MT. Mussolini.
 Already, it is possible to report much glee in the State Department over the Latin American reaction to the whirlwind visit of six army flying fortresses" to Buenos Aires with strategic stops at other capitals and the reception of Roosevelt's bid for inter- American cooperation in a message to the new president of Argentina, Dr. Robert M. Ortiz. The flying fortresses" were direct counter propaganda to the spectacular flight of young Bruno Mussolini to RIO de Janeiro.
 "Couriers of democracy" Ar
 genuine newspapers called the six war planes, contrasting them with "the planes of Mussolini which
 bomb women and children"
 End of Policing
 Our diplomats are hopeful that they can offset the German Italian cultural-political-economic invasion of South America. They feel that the good neighbor" policy of the Roosevelt administration has led to more friendly rela- tions with the other American re- publics than ever existed before.
 It is now firmly established that
 this government, in stressing it's
 adherence to the Monroe doctrine,
 has given up it's claim to the privilege of policeman like inter-
 vention and seeks only to protect
 other nations of the hemisphere in preservation of traditional
 ideals of democracy and freedom
 and freedom from foreign in-
 vasiOn. (The fact that Latin American countries mostly are
 governed by dictators of their own
 is embarrassing, of course. But
 what this country wants to be sure of is that they're not dom- mated by European dictators.)
 There will be many obvious signs of this governments deter mined effort to cultivate better political, cultural and trade rela- tions with South America.
 The Maritime Commissions de- cision that the government should buy and operate three steamships for the South American run, as just announced, was inspired by the State Department.
 Radio WOOing?
 A government broadcasting sta ton whose function will be offset the barrage of European fascist ra- dio propaganda in South America is an early likelihood. Recently, al- though few noticed it, the Federal Communications Commission took action for the use of four unas- signed South American short wave bands. It allocated two bands to the General Electric company and two to the Worldwide Broadcast Ing corporation, non-profit, edu- cational group in Boston.
 The contract bars advertising
 and, most significantly, is prac-
 tically revokable on "A hours mo-
 tice-which means, in effect, that
 these bands are being reserved
 for possible use by a government
 station directing it's messages to
 South America.
 Senators McAdoo of California and Chavez of New Mexico have introduced a bill for govern ment-owned station which would be operated by the navy and whose programs would be super vised by the secretary of state along spiritual, economic, cul- tural and political lines. There's lots of support for this measure. Copyright, 1888, NEA Service, Incl