Imperial Valley press., 1941-03-03

WASHINGTON, Mar. 8 - A few
new angles on U. S. relations with
South America have bobbed up as
European and Oriental comets OF
crises move along their orbits with
blazing tails.
Principally, there is puzzlement
as to where the leaSe-lend bill will
leave the South Americans. If he
misphere defense is to be the bic
thing, and large part of the U. S
defense effort is intended to prevent
the Nazis from taking over South
America, then where, the South
Americans wonder, Will help come
from for them.
Argentina, for instance, not SO
very long ago decided to abandon
German, French and British planes
for its airforce, and Standardlze
on American aircraft-becauSe the
United States would pe able to make
deliveries. But the Argentine re-
public has had an oredr on file
with U. S. plane makers for months,
and hasent been able to get de-
liverieS.
To the charge that South Amer
lea is being dominated by the Nazls
now, the Sud Americanos reply that
they have more fear of what the
fifth column will do in the United
States than they have in Latin
American republics.
BRAZILIANS SAY
THEY CHECK NAILS
There has been particular con-
Germ about Nazi penetration in
Brazil. but the BrazllianS claim
that they have much better
stranglehold on the German men,
ace than have the people of the
United States. German pamphlet
eering and newspapers in the
United States go practically I'M
checked, but whenever a German
language newspaper in Brazil prints
foreign news, it is required to
print in the next column a literal
translation in Portuguese, Brizilian
national language.
Similarly, all radio broadcasts in
Portuguese or German, to the Ger
man people of Brazil, are restricted
almost entirely to music and en-
tertainment. News bulletins are
limited to simple statements OF
fact No Comments.
Efforts TO improve commercial
relations with the South America
republics are just about where they
always were. Every discussion on
this subject sooner or later comes
to the stone wall argument that
we can't trade with South America
because the raw materials that they
formerly sold to Europe-wheat
meat, cotton, corn and Sugar-are
the commodities which the u. S
already has in abundance.
LAMOUR WILLING
TO DO HER BIT
What has perhaps been over
looked is the possibility that the
southern sister republics night try
a little more selling of their excess
groceries to each other Travellers
who came back drooling about the
tenderness and juiciness OF Argen-
tine steaks will tell you in the
same breath, that the best filet
mignon in the other South Ameri-
can countries is obtainable by sic.
ing off the sole of your own shoe
Recently, an air express shipmen'
of steaks was sent over the Ande!
as a publicity stunt 1t was from
page news. and it did result in al
effort to drive cattle herds from
Argentine INTO Chile for slaughter
Spreading Yankee culture is still
much on the trial and error basis
with emphasis on the error" Grapes
of Wrath" which was to educate
South America about American
life, was a terrible floperoo. Tht
people Just wouldn't believe it wa
a true picture of life in the U. S
A. Mistakes in staging such as putt
ing palm trees in the Andes or Ar
gentine, cowboys in Brazil, leav'
the cousins very dlsgustado, bu
with experts on every lot in Holly
wood now, that may be overcome
Best idea so far seems TO be II
send a string of stars on persona
appearance tours. Dorothy Lamoul
is dying to go, at government cul.
tural relations expense, and should
fig everything up dandy.
BRITISH ASSETS
MAY BE POOLED
How much good the government
loans will do remains TO be seen
PalmS-hands, not trees are sup.
posed TO be out all along the line
One big problem will be TO keer
the American loans from helping
finance foreign mpetitors, parti-