Detroit evening times. (Detroit, Mich) 1921-1958, 1942-01-19
Snae at Rio
Was Wealthy
Argen+ines
US. Buys Too Little Beef
10 Suit Them
BY PAUL MtLLON

NASlilN1loN' Jan ai9.r-Not
-the- Argentine government
officials, not Nazi agents, but
the rich hacienda owners of Ar
gCntina were the real obstacles
to naRfmtty AZ Rio.
The Argentine delegate Dr.,
Ruiz GuinaZu, started out talk
INC tough at the Pan-American
unlhcaton gathering land ne
can be as tough as foreign min
iSterS go).
But all present knew the po-
litcally powerful landlords of
his nation would have 10 he
appeased by any Argentine of
fetal who intended TO stay in
office.
Their traditional policy is so
strongly for an independent Ar
Gentna that it haS~deseloped
anti.Unitcd States inionations.
eve do not buy enough of the
beef they raise
HHEIR appeaSemcnt one way
u or another was the only real
underlying obstacle 10 Joint sew
GRANGE Of diplomatic relations.
although Mr.. Sumner WellcS
was also bothered by the fact
that our own war necessities
Will prevent us from delivering
all the goods we promised to
Latin-America before Pearl
Harbor.
This may he offset diplomat
iCally by increasing our pur-
ChaSes of raw materials from
them. We also want an all
American pooling of ships Car
Ccntine and Chile have large
investments in merchant ma
rine).
If any Nazi agents are hang
inc around the conference, they
will find we are also well rep
resented this time in that re-
speCt.
THIRTY-ONE Nazi submarines
L were presumed lin some Of
fetal quarters here to be off
our shores after the tanker
Norness was sunk off Montauk.
The NaZis apparently intended
10 put on ma Tor demonstration
for the conference of American
foreign ministers in Rio. The
timing proved better than the
results.
The army and navy are rather
proud of the way they broke up
the initial Jap sub attack on
Pacific Coast shipping, although
Mr.. RooSeVelt'S warning against
excessive submarine sin k i n &
claims has prevented them from
saying much.
Officially they claimed only a
few, but they thought they
baGCed many more, dying
from such lnconclusiNe evidence
as oil spots. Swift ceSSationS of
the attack confirms their private
estimates.
IT is never the rules Of CEN
sorShip that are oppressive,
only. the personal application of
them by individual Ccnsors. each
varying IN temperament and
preferences
The rules announced by cen
sOr Byron Price merely are
those long ago adopted volun-
tarily by news men here at the
suggestion Of various govern
mcnt departments. starting back
long before Pearl Harbor Few
violations have developed.
But Mr.. Price should require
each censor 10 hang above his
desk his following counsel from
the II award Law Review
r"AmcriCan Economic Mobiliza-
tom
Winning the war is para
mount, hut IL would hc sorry
commentary on American ideals
il this demanded n sacrifice OF
basic freedoms
SUBSEQUENT developments
u suggest Mr. Roo,cvcltS pr!-
mary purpose IN Fastening the
Nelson reorganization announce
ment yeas 10 blunt the tlmclinoSS
of the Truman report crIuCi1lng
lnofllclency in the old production
Seup
The Truman criticism was
thus m way. made obsolete.
This has been a iavorlta RoS,o-
Welt StrateCcm
ITANORITE Washington story
Is the one about a lady civil
IAN defense officials who called
m group of labor leaders -
impress them with tl'c necessity
of making the country moro var
conscious
FImkcd 10y several othcr-ab,i--
o'l~'> approving ladies. she ,,d
Steps should boz taken 90 prrpaIa
mo children p>NChOlOcICalIV Tor
bombs She suggested thus p4,:
GET group of children 'o-
Cc'hcr and arrange 10 have
some hard missile dropped INA
front Of them from above. Have
some Grownup official say. VIXEN
II hits tho ground.
Boom boom
Then have tho children repeat
in a chorus
Boom boom"