Evening star., 1941-11-27

the first bomb fell on Poland.
The Lend-LeaSe Administrat
nator of Information), the Co-or
and the E. D. B. Economic De-
fense Board are auxiliary diplo-
matte bureaus, created to operate
with a boldness and dispatch that
lie outside the vocational bound
aries of normal diplomacy. They
have a threefold purpose, to help
friends, to win friends and to harry
enemies on the grand, cosmic scale.
They use economics and informa-
ton to accomplish their triple aims.
The visitor in downtown Wash
ington, eager to observe these agen-
cleS in action, can begin his tour
at the Commerce Building, Four
teenth and E streets NV, where
the Office of the Co-ordinator of
Inter-American Affairs is spread
over the fifth and seventh floors
Of the biggest of all Government
buildings. Nelson Rockefeller, the
co-ordinator, is on the seventh floor,
as high as he can get without work.
ing on the roof.
His Outlook Is to South.
Co-ordinator Rockefeller's VIM
dows face toward the south. giving
him sweeping view in the direc-
ton of Latin America, whose friend
ship it is his duty to keep for the
United States.
All was going we'll in that field
until last week brought one of those
hideous accidents that disturb the
smooth course of human and inter-
national relations. An American
publisher, who had been doing work
helpful to the committee, brought
forth a childrens book entitled
Bolivar, the Baboon,'' forgetting
that Simon Bolivar is the hero of
the South American continent.
The co-ordinator Office has a
staff Of 275 and an operating budget
of 100000 for the current year.
AS the o. P. A. intercedes with the
o. P. M. in the interest of the
United States civilian, so the Inter-
American Affairs intercedes with
the o P. M. in the interest of our
Good Neighbors to the South.
The priorities system here cut off
from the Latin Americans great
supplies of essential materials and
has disrupted their industries and
normal economic life. For the most
part the old European sources of
materials for the Americas are be-
yond reach. The United States is
the chief reliance, and some local
South American airline schedules
were upset last summer because the
lines could not get plane deliveries.
from here.
Germans Deliver Them.
I'm the middle of this" accord
ing to Co-ordinator Rockefeller,
tine Germans ran the blockade
twice to Brazil with new airplanes
and with spare parts for existing
planes. Not only did they do that,
but they came in with French wines
and Scotch whisky.
They played up the propaganda
value of this to the fullest possible
extent. They stated everywhere
that the Good Neighbor of the
North. with all its tremendous pro-
duction capacity, was not supplying
their needs, but that they, the Ger
mans, although at war, were still
taking care of their friends. It
was indicated that as soon as the
war was over the Germans would
really take care of them"
The Rockefeller Office was Gre
ated by executive order August 16.
1910. with the cumbersome title of
once OF the Co-ordinator of Com
mercial and Cultural Relations be-
tween the American Republics. The
name was changed last summer
three years after the State Depart
ment had become the seat of a
Cultural Relations Division whose
purpose was to foster ra-diplo-
matte tenderness among the New
World states.
The Cultural Relations Division
however, was frozen by the years
OF precedents which counsel. with
a sort Of mort main inviolabilitv
sloWness IN action for diplomats.
The division, as part Of the State
Department, employed the hesi-
tant State Department methods. It
still exists, but chiefly as a brake on
the brashness of Co-ordinator
Roockefeller's newer institution,
Two Matters Paramount.
The Rockefeller ONCE attends, In
brief. to two matters. It seeks to
keep the export lanes from here to
the Latin American countries
crowded with southward-movine
United States goods. Two, it seek,
to keep Latin America apprised OF
the aims and aspirations of this
country for the world and also i'm
pressed by the progress of our de-
fense program and our redirection
of the American industrial machine
to cope with the extraordinary
needs of the time.
So the Rockefeller ONCE is an in
formation ONCE. 1t prepares reg
ular daily short-wave broadcaSts to
Latin American countries giving the
news from the American point Of