The Daily Alaska empire., 1944-10-07
The W ashington Merry -Go Round
By DREW PEARSON fLt. Col Robert $. Allen now on active
 service with the Army.)

NGTON-Friends of dig nified, austere Cordell Hull say the thing which finally caused him to crack down a virtual U. s. shipping embargo on Argentina was an Ar genuine film depicting him in a Donald Duck satire, always quack- ing about Argentina.
 The film, entitled "Oh, MT. Hull, 7" showed Secretary Hull as an evil looking old man, sitting in rock ing chair with Donald Duck be- side him. Another film in the same series showed MT. Hull milking a COW marked Latin America"
 These Argentine films were made on raw film stock, which is a critical material and which the U. s. Government had permitted Ar gentina to have under a regular quota arrangement. The whole thing naturally burnt Secretary Hull up and spurred him into ac- ton perhaps more than the argu- ments of certain cabinet colleagues who long have urged an economic crackdown on Argentina
 Chief difference inside the cabi- net is that Hull, up until this week, has favored policy of merely snubbing Argentina-in other words, withdrawing our Ambassador and having no diplomatic relations. Ex- pounding this theory to friends, Hull once said:
 When you come out of your house and find your neighbors looking up at the moon and refus- ing to speak to you, it may be all right for one or two nights, but after while you don't like it."
 Other members of the cabinet, led by Treasury Secretary Morgen- thau, have felt that we have been looking at the moon long enough and just one year ago, Morgenthau urged cutting economic ties with Argentina. Other State Depart ment advisers have considered cut ting off the heavy U. S.-British purchases of Argentine meat for lend-lease and military consump- ton.
 However, the whole thing drifted, until now the situation with Argen- tina is definitely serious. Here are some of the latest difficult develop ments:
 l. Other Latin American nations, always tending to stick together against the Colossus of the North are getting more and more sympa- thetic with Argentina. The other day Brazil, supposedly our best friend, manipulated the busting of Foreign Minister Aranha who has steadfastly supported Hull's policy
 2. Two shipIoads of Argentine chickens and turkeys recently ar rived at the Panama Canal Zone purrhased by the U. s. Government for food on U. s. ships. Thus we buy from Argentina, while snubbing her. Most Argentines don't care about the snubs as long as they are prosperous.
 3. In calling a world aviation conference, MT. Hull pointedly omitted Argentina, but did invite Ireland. Argentina has broken dip lomatic relations with the Axis and kicked out Nazi diplomats while Ireland, despite special plea from Roosevelt, has not.
 Other Allied diplomats feel this is cutting off our nose to spite our face, since Argentina is the terminus of all air lines running into South America. We must have bases there, and we can't get them without discussing the matter with the government which now runs Argentina.
 As a result, many diplomats feal that U. S-Argentine relations have drifted into a hopeless impasse
 NOTE - This impasse is why friends of Governor Dewey recent ly have started warming up to ex-