The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1941-07-24

ing between the United States and
the Nazis- and Fascists, 10 their
advantage.
The blacklist probably is Or soon
Will be pretty effective.
Pan-American Cultural Co-ordi-
nator Nelson A. Rockefeller's out
fit is said to have compiled the list
Of about 1000 suspected concerns,
and its sources of information ap-
pear to be fairly reliable.
With the commerce departments
cooperation, u export licensing
system should shut off shipments
to the suspects: even II there are
Yankee houses that are willing to
sell to EN-, they won't be able TO
get licenses to make deliveries. Be-
sides, the blackl.sted would-be buy
ers' funds in this country have
been frozen.
The delicate part Of Secretary
Acheson's stunt is to- make his
blacklist stick without violently
antagonizing our southern neigh
bors against Uncle Samuel.
We don't mind hurting the feel
ings of some out-and-out German
or Italian firm in such a city as
Rio de Janeiro or Santiago or
Buenos Aires. But even concerns
OF this sort are apt 10 have native
friends in neighborhoods where,
perhaps, they've been doing BUSH
ness for maybe a couple of genera
tons.
How About These:
Furthermore, plenty Of purely
Latin-American houses without a
drop Of Axis blood in them) have
long traded, ~prohtably to them
selves, with German and Italian
customers. Choking THEM off
doesn't make for Pan-American
solidarity.
The same difficulty presented It.
self during the last war. 1t wasn't
so bad then. though. because we
were making no particular bid for
western hemispherical good neigh
borliness.
For quite awhile before our
blacklist was proclaimed Cultural
Coordination Rockefeller toiled in
dustriously to get our inter-Ameri-
can trade out Of the hands Of pro-
Axis concerns in the southern re-
publics, and INTO the hands of
nee that like US and the de-
mocracies generally.
Co-ordinator Rockefener and
Secretary Acheson still are push
ing this program. That is, when
ever and wherever a firms black
listed, some other, f%riendlier arm is
being urged by the first opportu-
nifty created by the first firms elm
nation. The theory is that the
new firm, profting by the a
rangement, will like US so much
better that it'll Offset the hostility
Of the one we've blacklisted.
II has been stated that about
1000 of these readjustments were
effected prior to the blacklist's pub
LEGATION. But there were 1000 more
that wouldn't agree. so they had
to be blacklisted. II the scheme has
a weakness, 1t is that 1t requires
such an awful lot Of Latin-Ameri-
can cooperation.
VIII 1t Work:
The state department reckons
that br~oadcasting the names Of
the blacklisted houses will have a
nightly unfavorable publicity eff
feet upon 'em-that it'll make
Latin Americans hate them. That,
Of course, remains to be zen
The departments Impression,
from advices it gets, from its
agents below the Rio Grande (oh
yes, we have them, as well as the
Axis bunch), that the Latin Amer
leans are dead willing to be defend
ed from overseas. All they ask is,
Can we absolutely depend on
Uncle Sam to defend. not only him
self, but all Of us?"
Dictator Franco OF Spain told
them the other day, by radio, that
Uncle Samuel will be committing
outright suicide if he butts into the
war. What he needs is an answer
from Washinxton5and IN SpaniAh