The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-12-13

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 there was Q little
 EdsOm controversy bee tween tIiis CHA oftice and the COT ofdce of Colonel William ]. Dono- van, co-ordinator of information, but that's oil smoothed out now. of course, you understand that neither the CHA nor the GOT has anything to do with the Q. I. 0. Any similar. ity in the initials Is purely unins tentional
 It was intended all along that the Donovan office would prepare the U. s. counter propaganda for world consumption outside the United States. That was oil right, but the Rockefeller boys weren't any too anxious to have anyone messing up their pet customers with fancy re. clpes not seasoned to the South American taste. Consequently, a deal was worked out that seems to leave everyone happy. A Rockefeller ipan was given desk in the Don- ovan offices at 27o Madison avenue, New York. In this ofiiee there Is also Q representative of the private broadcastlpg chains. This gent, Stanley Richardson, is paid by the broadeasters to keep an eye peeled for material that might be beamed out on foreign broadcastS, partlcu- lariy from the 10 short wave sta- tons now operating.
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 GOOD NEIGHBORS
 As new releases are prepared by the Rockefeller and Donovan staffs, they are exchanged by the two offices. If there Is q conflict, ono or the other iS withdrawn. Both re- ports go to Richardson, who is then free to pick what he thinks would Dc of interest to the foreign listen- CTS. Anything he doesn't Ike he is At liberty to Ale in the wastebaSket, and that's that. By having non. government man do the final edit- ing in this way material is chosen for It's news value and not for It's propaganda value, and that's where the South American listeners get Q break,
 Short wave radio isn't the only stuff beamed to Latin America, either. Several months ago, Rocke- feller started talking to firms doing export business in South America, and persuaded Q number of big bus iness to buy time on South Amer iea's own long wave stations for broadcasting U. 8, press news bought from the wire services which also furnish news to North Amer lean and South American liewSpA- pers and broAdeaSters. There are i26 of these programs on the Latin American air every week now. Two months ago there were only 2S such programs,
 Furthermore, the three U. s. broadcasting chains are aS busy aS static, farming chains below the Rio drande, sharing revenues with the South American privately own. cd stations and thus building up private, commercial bonds, Here again the South American listeners get Q break in knowing that these programs are free press news, and not the dream stuff Of manufac. VASS piVPWbNAfAu'
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 Another Rockefeller innovation Is 0 private news letter sent out in Portuguese and Spanish by weekly Rirmail to some 5000 key people in government and private business among the 20 sister republics. This American News Letter" takes the form of similar confidential news letters sold by private reporters to U. s. business = four pages of type- written copy run through 0 dupli- eating machine. It boils down the weeks news of special interest to hot shots, wrapped up in such form to make 1t appear that this, com- padres y amigos is the only real Inside straight confidential dope on whats going on.
 Most ambitious effort of the Rockefeller organization in seeing that the South Americans get straight news and not propaganda is through a new special news pic- ture service being set up In Wash. ington under Francis Jamieson, Pulitzer prize winner, and Harry Frantz, veteran United Press cable editor. When this service is fully organized, 1t will cooperate with the western hemisphere papers in preparing and furnishing news about the Americas. Only one South American paper now has @ corre- spondent in Washington. U. s. news services do furnish cable coverage on spot news, but the feature news and the special requests can't all be handled. Why U. s. chemical iin- ports from the Argentine are in- creasing, outlook for the South American hide market, how Puerto Rico's price control works, editorial reaction of the U, S. press all this the Rockefeller news service will furnish on request.
 In all this service of information for South and Central America, however, efforts are made to see tita there is no competition with private enterprise. News from the Latins is first ordered to the regu- lar U. S. commercial distributors. If they don't want 1t, then the co-or-