The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-04

of the Department of Art and Arch geology in Princeton. is heading up the outpost in Rome. Dean James J. Robbins of American University, Washington, will be in charge at Stockholm. People like that.
 Their job will be pretty much what Herbert Agar has done in London making contacts and in- fluencing the right people in the right direction, editors, educators, scientists and such to re-estab- fish cultural ties that became united during the war. The psychological warfare stuff which was pretty much OWIs original overseas dish, is being dropped in the ashcan.
 The cultural relations job which OWI - pardon, USIS will be doing in the liberated countries will be entirely temporary. Within six months after the end of the war in Europe it will be folded up, or what ever part of the program still re- mains worth doing will be handed over to the Cultural Cooperation boys in the Department of State. MacLEISH SEES GOLDEN
 OPPORTUNITY
 Assistant Secretary of State Arch- ibald MacLeish spelled this out pretty thoroughly in recent testi- mony before the House Appropria- tions Committee, We have a golden oportunity at the moment in the liberated areas of Europe as they open up. These people want help to help themselves We have people who know how to do things in public health, restoration of cities t. . We have the printed matter the scientific materials, the laboratory materials to help them help themselves.
 The Germans learned long ago that trade follows the book. People from the dim ages on down have learned that commerce follows your prestige as a nation, that people trade with a nation that knows how to do things, that knows how to make things"
 How this is being worked on in the new USIS offices can perhaps best be told by Dr. Lee Gershoy of OWI's Washington staff, just back from inspecting the Paris outpost.
 Some 95 Americans puus 130 French helpers make up the staff. occupying several buildings. This staff of over 200 is perhaps bigger than the entire U. s. diplomatic mission in Paris before the war.
 Tvhnu cTNnoioli2oI radio, photographic and general information service. News of America is a daily mimeographed bulletin in French that goes to 1,500 clients Document of the Week" takes one subject - lend lease, Breton Woods, Dumbarton Oaks and goes to town on it with 10000 words to give French editors and libraries information they have been deprived of. Chronicle of the U. S." gives them a similar fill-in on U. s. domestic affairs.
 U. S. NEWSREELS
 DISTRIBUTED
 Negotiations are under way to put U. s. neWsreels in all French movie houses. An exhibit of 200 U. s. pho- tographs giving a picture story of the last four years is making the circuit of 200 French towns.
 There is a lecture service for schools. There are libraries and re- ference materials. French maga- zines. printed in the U. S., are dis tributed. Thirty U. S. best sellers have been translated into French printed in editions of 250 900 for the French book trade. Ultimately, files of publications for the past five years will be sent over.
 There is staff of nine people to run down false rumors about Amer jeans and get them corrected over the radio and in the French press For France, after long war and a hard winter, with million -and-a- half homes destroyed, with three million citizens missing and held prisoners by the Germans, with 30 million of them hungry, is a psycho- logically sick country.
 Not having been permitted to complain under the Nazi heels, the French are now free and kicking about everything - lack of food, the Yalta conference, Dumbarton Oaks That gives USIS plenty to do, and it will have practically the same things to do in every liberated country in Europe.