The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-14

finally agreed on to head the com- Inittee, being ulnobjectionable to all, being a good man besides, and presidential timber for 1914 if he makes good as vice president.
 The other members of the com mittee are, titularly, the Secre-
 taries of State, Treasury, War, ] Navy, Commerce, and the Attorney General. These cabinet members, however, will all be so busy with their regular work that they will be expected to attend only the opening sessions and the plenary sessions when papers are to be signed and, presumably, pictures taken.
 Provision was made in the Presi- dents order creating the board for "alternates" to function in place of the brass hats, do all the execu- tive work, and report back to their bosses. Undersecretary of State Sumner WelleS will function for Secretary Hull. Undersecretary of Commerce Wayne Chatfield-T Taylor will sit in for Secretary Jones' and so on. In other words, the big name board itself is another holding com-
 pany setup, under which others will function.
 | There will be an executive direc- tor of the board, and Dr. Wifield wv. Riefler of Princeton, sometime Federal Reserve Board economist, is now generally mentioned for this job. Riefler and his staff will be largely planners. Execution will be left to others.
 SUPER ZONING BOARD
 When the board gets going, the idea will be for it to divide Up Ithe world into four economic zones. Europe will be one, the British Empire another, the Orient a third, and the Western Hemi- sphere less Canada, the fourth. There will be division in charge of each zone, and it's job will be to study the economy of the area and see how economic war can i be waged there to best advantage.
 Take the Western Hemisphere as an example of how it works. Or ganization of this group is a little further along than the others, so it's good specimen.
 It will be run by 8 Committee on Inter American Affairs. This committee will reach into num- Der of existing governmental agen- cies for representatives. State, Treasury, Commerce, Agriculture, Export Import Bank, OPM, OPACS, and Export Control are a likely | lineup for the team. This group will have as a titular chairman i Nelson Rockefeller, whose Commit tee on Cultural and Commercial Relations has been renamed and reshaped. Co-ordinator Rockefeller will continue to do most of the things he has been doing and few others besides, but the enl- phasiS will be more on the cul- tural than on the commercial re- lations, the commercial programs having been transferred to the Commerce Department. The fin ance company to buy up German control of South American airliness for instance, which started as a Rockefeller enterprise, has been moved over under the banner of the Federal Loan Agency, the oth- CT half of the Jesse Jones enter prises.
 The extra role which Nelson Rockefeller will have thrust upon him is that of acting as an unoffi- cial friend in court for all the South and Central American coan- tries. Whenever any one of these republics has 8 problem, instead of trying to make an appointment with Cordell Hull for formal state call, the ambassador will be able to get Rockefeller on the telephone and tell his story. Rocke- feller, not being bound by proto- col, will be able to call up the government department concerned and get something going, quick. As such, the Rockefeller office may be able to cut through more red 1 tape in less time than any other government agency has ever been able to do.
 STRATEGY BOYS IN CHARGE Actual administration of the com mercial end of the program, as it concerns the waging of econom- ic war, will be placed with com- mittee on strategy, and its plans are being worked out now. With this committee, General Maxwell's new Export Clearance Section will operate in such 8 way that clearance of priorities and per- mits in all government departments can be obtained without delay. Under General Maxwell will be a staff of hardboiled army majors and colonels whose instructions will be to ride roughshod through the red tape and to forget all they ever knew about the infamous military channels which clutter up so much army procedure.
 If a project involves the send- ing of three shiploads of machine guns to some South American re- public to arm its troops for hemi- sphere defense, and the bringing back of hides to make into shoes for the Russian army, the idea will be to get it started and get it done quicker than it was ever done he- fore.