The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-29

creation of gossips who wanted to make more of the job than it really was. Consequently, the Colona has been trying to live down rumors that he was to be the Heinrich Himmler of an American Gestapo, the Goeb- bels of a U. s. propaganda agency, chief censor, 8 super-spy boss of the G-men and Army and Naval intelligence units, Or even head of a grand strategy broad which would outrank the Army and Navy gen- eral staff and tell everybody where to head in.
 Any and all such rumors can be definitely labeled as the bunk. What the Colonel will do is just what the title of his job implies-he will CO., ordinate information.
 MILLIONS OF WORDS
 That, however, isn't as simple as it might sound. Pouring into Wash ington every day now are some two to ten million words of reports from all kinds of places and people. J. Edgar Hoover's FBT has its dope. Army and Navy intelligence get reports from their foreign observers. State Department gets diplomatic pouches. Consular agents report to the Department of Commerce. Secret Service, Customs, and Coast Guard report to Treasury. Immigration Service reports to Labor. The trans script of the Federal Communica- tions Commissions radio-li listening in service of foreign broadcasts runs to nearly a million words 8 day.
 Heretofore, the meat of all this has been poured directly on the Presidents desk. To say that it was confusing is too mild. Its conflicts, incompletepe ess, fragmentary sug- gestiveness and lack of evaluation have been enough to drive anyone nuts. That's where the co-ordinator' job will come in-trying to make order out of all the chaos.
 Doing a job of brain trusting on the war will be Donovan's division of analysis. It will be headed by James Phinney Baxter, III, presi- dent of Williams College. Baxter, in addition to being an able admins trator, is historian. He has been a member of the Naval War College staff for some years, and is the author of "The Introduction of the Ironclad Washrip." SCHOLARS GALORE '
 As chief assistant to President Baxter will be Dr. Edward Meade Earle of Princeton's Institute for Advanced Study, author of an Outline of Modern History" and a member of the War College. How large a staff Baxter and Earle will have to assemble for their task is something they themselves don't yet know, but in their work they will have specialized sections of histor- ians, geographers, economists and miscellaneous professors recruited from the ablest scolars in the corln- try. Their exporting will be supple mented by staff and field officers from various government depart ments whose information they will coordinate. Backing all up will be a Library of Congress research staff uUQcI 6IO1. w Wu1AduA 4iCOAAd1A 41cIA- ger of Harvard. Langer was ser- geant in the First Gas Regiment of the A. E. F., and saw action in the Argonne and at St. Mihiel.
 Granting that the now-tamed Colonel Donoyan's Fightin' 69 Pro- fessors, or how many of them there may be, can coordinate all this in formation, it is not the idea to boil it down to a daily bulletin and then drop 1t on the Presidents desk. While the Donovan office will have no authority over the departments whose information it co-ordinates, 1t will be Donovan function to "hunch" the various departments on courses of strategic action they might follow, and follow fast. For instance, if the foreign broadcast monitoring service picks up ad- vance information of a new Japa- nese move to the south, as 1t did a month before the invasion of Indo- China, that is something the State, and Navy Departments want to know about.