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The
Washington
Merry-Go-Round
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By Drew Pearson and
Robert S. Allen
WASHINGTON —When Harry
.Hopkins first proposed that Nel
son Rockefeller be appointed co
ordinator of Latin American af
fairs of the National Defense
Commission, there arose a migh
ty howl from the State Depart
ment.
Mr. Rockefeller, the State De
partment claimed, smelled too
much of oil. His grandfather’s
and his father’s oil companies
had been down in Latin America
battling the M xican govern
ment, and the Bolivian and Col
umbian governments. So, the
State Department argued, young
Rockefeller would begin his job
with two strikes against him.
The White House, concurred |
over these arguments, held up
the Rockefeller appointment for
approximately three months, fin
ally bowed to the persuasive in
fluence of Harry Hopkins and ap
pointed the young millionaire
anyway. Since then two things
have happened:
1. The State Department has
gone its own polite and dignified
way, ignoring whenever possible
the existence of anyone named i
Rockefeller.
2. The refreshing Mr. Rocke-!
feller seems to have justified all
that Harry Hopkins ever said
about him by unobtrusively but
energetically making good. In
the short time he has been func
tioning under the long-winded
title of “Coordinator of Commer
cial and Cultural Relations be
tween the American Republics”
he has really breath d new life j
into one of the most important1
fields of American foreign af
fairs.
RADIO CITY EXECUTIVE
To get the complete picture,
you have to know a bit more
about M r. Rockefeller, The
woods are full of Rockefellers.
T1 s particular one is 32 years
old, the second son of John D.,!
Jr. Tie has five children, includ
ing twins, and sometimes is de
scr'bed as th? Rockefeller who
has taken most interest in Radio
C tv (Rockefeller Center), of
which he is a director and also
helnpd to build up the Museum
of Modern Art.
But in Latin A erica young
iRocMef Her had c, rved out a
unique distinction even before he
accepted his present post on the
'Defense Commission. He had
gone down to Ven zuela in con
nect’ >n with his family’s oil com
Psnies. and had become impress
ed '.v th the idea that American
business in Latin America had,
to be more than a leech inudstry
—had to do more than drill wells
and suck oil out of the ground.
Furthermore, and particularly :
in Venezuela, he saw that after
that country had exhausted the
one commodity upon which it
had been so dependent, economic
chaos would follow together with
the same policy applied in Mex
ico—expropriation.
LOCAL MONEY
So young Rockefeller began
working on the idea of diversify
ang Venezuela’s industries and
diversifying them on a part r
ship ba- s. In other words in
stead of merely bringing more
American capital to Venezuela,
he set up a company in which
local money joined with him in
building a hotel in Caracas to
bi' operat'd jointly by American
and Venezuela directors.
This is on" of Rockefeller's oh
jectives as Coordinator of Latin
.American affairs on the Defense
Council—namely, to set up cor
porations in which Latin Ameri
an capital will mix with Ameri
can money, in contrast to the old
practice of Yankee exploitation
with Yankee dollars.
‘‘There is no joint,” says Rocke
feller “in trying to tug the Latins
to our side in a tug of war with
the Germans. What we want to
do is help them in developing ec
onomic independence. They have
fought for economic independ
ence before and they can do it
aagin. In that fight, we are with
them.”
"There is no point,” says Rocke
State Department and Mr. Rocke
feller see eye to eye. Actually,
the State Department, under the
far-sighted Good Neighbor Pol
icy. devised by Sumner Welles,
already had loaned U. S. and
Brazilian capital to build a new
steel mill in Brazil.
RUSSIA’S PREDICAMENT
Most U. S. diplomats register
sadistic glee at the tight spot in
which Russia finds herself as a
result of Hitler’s move into Ru
mania. How tight a spot is can
be gathered if you remember
that for years, under both Czar
and Stalin, it has been Russia’s
policy never to let anyone but a
weak Turkey control the Dardan
elles—for fear an enemy might
come through to the Black Sea.
But note—Germany already is
on the shores of the Black Sea.
With out even going through the
Dardanelles the Nazis are in a
strategic place to launch sub
marine attacks on Soviet ship
ping. In fact, submarines already
are reported on railroad flat cars
enroute through Rumania.
The Russians also are up ag
ainst the fact that resistance
against Hitler in Rumania means
war all along their 1,700 miles of
western border, from Finland
and the Arctic to Bulgaria and
the Black Sea. This far-flung
line would be a tough job to de
fend against Hitler’s war ma
chine despite the size of the Red
Army.
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However, if Stalin does not re
! sist, he faces even greater dan
ger next spring when the Nazis
! will have consolidated their fore
es in Rumania, perhaps in Tur
| key and all the Balkans.
| R ason for diplomatic glee is
| that both the U. S. State Depart
ment and the British Foreign Of
fice have been flirting with Rus
sia for months trying to wean
her away from the Axis. Sir Staf
ford Cripps, special British Am
bassador in Mexico, could get no
where and it has only been with
in the last ten days that the State
Department found the Russians
in a genuinely copoerative frame
of mind. But by this time it was
too late.
15 Leaders
% ose Feeding
Of Europe
•Reluctant but Considered Judg
ment’ Holds Blockade Vital
to Democracies
Fifteen prominent persons
most of them educators or clergy
men joined recently in a state
ment in which they said it was
their “reluctant but considered
judgement” that the American
people should not attempt to
feed the conquered peoples of
Europe “unless the British Gov
ernment gives its free consent,
uncoerced by any external pres
sure.”
Asserting that the blockade
was indispensable to the d fense
of the democratic nations, the
statement held that “between the
agony of empty stomachs for a
time in one part of the world
and the agony of stricken souls
in every part of the world there
can be but one choice.”
Among the signers were Dr.
Henry Sloane Coffin, president of
Union Theological Seminary;
Dr. James B. Conant, president
of Harvard University; John W.
Davis, Democratic candidate for
President in 1924: Dr. Harold W.
Dodds, president of Princeton,
and William Green, president of
the American Federation of La- ]
bor. The statement follows:
“The American people are
deeply sympathetic with the civ
ilian populations of Europe in
their sufferings and threatened
sufferings. And especially with j
those who already enduring sub-1
jugalion by a pitiless conqueror]
now face the further ordeal of]
food privation. Were it possible ]
to all viate this distress without!
strengthening the conqueror and |
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so prolonging his conquest, every
'impulse would prompt the Am
erican people to seek to do so. j
“However, by the declared in
tention of the totalitarian powers j
this is a total war, imperiling;
the life of every citizen in the |
nations within its orbit. No one j
can hope to evade a share in the
common suffering.
“Further, the issue of the war
lies between two strategies each
of which threatens intense suffer
ing for civilians. The totalitarian
powers aim. by studied and re
lentless assault upon civil pop
ulations to driye them into sub
jugation. The toll of that strat
egy is being taken daily and
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS
Notice is hereby given that
Wallace Portir has been appoint
ed by the Probate Court for the
Koyuk Precinct, Second Division
Territory of Alaska, administrat
or of the estate of Jesse Peter
son, deceas d. and that all per
sons having claims against the
said estate are required to pre
sent the same with proper vou
chers within six months from the
date of this notice to the under
signed administrator at Haycock,
Territory of Alaska.
Doted the 4th day of Novem
ber, 1940.
Wallace Porter,
Administrator of the Estate
of Jesse Peterson, deceased.
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Lots 9, 10, 11 and 12. Block 23
Nome, Alaska, with the 2-story
frame house on lot 10 and 1-story
ffame house on the North part of
Lot 9, will be offered for sale at
public auction to the highest bid
der for cash. Time and place of
sale City Hall, Nome, 8 p.m. Wed
nesday, November 13, 1940. Any
and all bids may be refused, and
any sale must be confirmed by
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This is the Heinrich (Harry)
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