The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-01-06

bases disappeared In order to get tn,
Eskimos to work, the Boondoggler:
had an inspiration; they boosted theil
fur and fish prices and their wage
scales still higher. They ran the
Eskimos' income to Sl20 per week!
That soon stopped all trapping
fishing and work for sure So mex
they put the price down. And wher
they did that the Eskimos couldn't
understand it. Serious dissatisfaction
and unrest spread in Labrador. Anc
then the American Boondogglers
turned to the local Newfoundland au.
thorities to put the Eskimos in then
place.
"They're out of hand" they said
Control them. We're spending a lot
of money here"
If you were Mayor of Okkak, Lab
rador, or Governor of Newfoundland
how would you feel about that?
All the way from Bermuda to
Sydney, local administrators are ask
ing themselves. what will happen
when the Americans leave" Who
would say that this is the path to
peace in the world?
There is the same hodgepodge du-
,plication of federal offices abroad as
in our own country. Nobody can make
sense out of the swarm of United
States Government employees. They
are a mystery both to the natives and
to each other They conduct negotia-
tons independently of our ambassa-
+ doris or ministers. They pay Ameri-
can cash to local politicians who are
in opposition to the governments of
countries friendly to the United
States, They put such opposition
leaders" on their payroll and stage
; political vaudeville acts which they
have thought out overnight. If their
ideas run counter to the policy of our
State Department or emharrass the
! friendly nations president or prime
minister, as we'll as our ambassador,
! that is just too bad.
"This is a smart mans war"
heard one of them say. "We've got to
be plenty smart with these foreigners.
The thing to do is to play along with
both factions. You know, play both
against the middle
Another brash young employee of
the United States Government asked
me one day, What do you think of
Steinhardt? Has he got anything on
the ball, or do you think we ought to
get rid of him ?" This young whipper-
snapper was referring to the dis
! tinguishcd American Ambassador to
/ Turkey, Laurence A. Steinhardt, who
for ten years has spoken for his
country so ably in Stockholm, Lima
Moscow and Ankara.
"Do you know Mr.. Steinhardt l
asked.
mo" he said, "but he's making it
| hard for the Office of War Informa-
ton in Turkey, and I think he's got a
hell of lot of nerve. I'm for canning
/ Stenhardt."
Anything may happen when the
representatives of our various and
sundry government agencies show up
! Take Bolivia. One fourth of the
! worlds tin is produced there. Tin is
sorcly needed in the United States
now The Bolivian contingent of the
American Boondoggling Corps has a
program in Bolivia which has so much
politics and so little economics that
will not stay in Bolivia for the bal
ancc of this war.
/ Coffee bulges all Latin American
warehouses. We have allotted to each
coffee producing country quota for
export to the United States. The rea-
son We do not get more coffee is not
/ because there are not enough ships.
1t is because no one in the Board of
! Economic Warfare has had gumption
! enough to authorize lifting the quota
/ whenever an empty ship was in any
port where the quota had been filled.
Meat abounds in Australia. for the
/ shipping lane to Overwhelmingly
| the market for Australia's mutton and
! becf-has been struck by the Pacific
war. Because of this, American meat
| is sent to England. A constant flow of
American vessels transports men and
, equipment to Australia, but for the
most part these ships come back
empty when they could bring Austria
liam meat. The global boondogglers
planning the world, are too busy look
ing at the forest to see such trees.
The governments policies abroad
are undermining the morale of our
troops. This is not the time to pay an
American workman $1,000 a month &c
fix electric wires on the airficld at
Accra while privates in the United
States Army. working on the Samt
field are paid $50 a month. This is
not the time to build immense bases
such as we arc building in Eritrca
with an understanding that only unior
labor be sent abroad. This is not the
time to play into the hands of labor
rackctccrs who require that any
skilled American civilian electrician