Show 4 real warfare of dollars 0 o Is on in south america U S wa g e s trado trade and economic battle in effort to oust axis influence from western hemisphere by Nat national lonal farm and homo home hour commentator service 1313 II 11 street N IV washington U D 0 about a month ago I 1 wrote that there was a rumor to the effect that tho the united totes was in an undeclared war which had been marked private and confidential and that therefore nobody would talk about it it was a war of dollars instead of bullets this new brand of warfare Is economic and it has broken out on two now new fronts with the blacklisting of the pro axis firms in south america and the freezing of Japa japanese niso trade tho the whole story can now bo be told although some still oily ehy at tile the word warfare when discussing these methods of attack there are ara others who feel that it should have been used frankly and the methods and purpose explained long ago they say this strategy would havo have been received sympathetically by the people as a preventive measure against actual warfare I 1 just what Is the difference be 1 gween the battle of dollars and warfare of 0 bullets what Is tho the purpose of each the word war goes back to the anglo saxon which meant I a quarrel and in those days a quarrel meant a fight since quarrels no longer necessarily mean fights some people cling to the hope that war need not always mean shooting senator recently said in the senate benato that he did not think the president was leading the united states into war of the shooting variety and the people who believe in the battle odthe of the dollars say that this kind of a may prevent shooting the object of war in the military bense sense Is the destruction of the military forces of the enemy in days the theory seems to be that in order to destroy the military forces it la Is necessary to destroy everything else the object oi 91 economic war is to destroy the economic forces of the enemy unlike military m war ar dol do lar iiii warfare carfore according to its opponents checks the ithe i steps which lead actual combat south america As battlefield using south america as the bettle battlefield tle field flold this Is the way they explain their thesis the germans set about to control the tha latin american trade by making the je economy conomy of a country dependent on tho the wishes of berlin the nazis obtain political influence just as business and other pressure groups sometimes control political power in this country once the germans have control of the economic forces in a country they supplement this control with bribery and intrigue and anally attempt to put a per cent pro axis government in power nazi control of a number of key governments in south america aberli ca according to the proponents of the theory of economic warfare will result in a menace to the sai safety lety of this nation the recent attempt to overthrow the government of bolivia li Is an example of nazi fascist methods it was broken up with the help of united states agents who discovered documents revealing the plot and turned them over to the bolivian government A similar plot you ma may lecou was discovered in uruguay J ii 1 the earl days of the war what are the methods which the united states government employs to stop licop the german econom economic 16 and political Icil kne penetration end and pursue its k own economic warfare well they are in part the methods e employed in the early days when tile the great trusts were built up in the united states except that the united states government itself Is a trust organized to td benefit all and not to exploit any of the peoples in the western hemisphere two methods of trust operation A trust has two principal methods of operation one is a perfectly honest attempt to perfect the manufacture and abid distribution of its products or its services the second Is the use of a means now dis countenanced and forbidden by law in the united states of ruthless cutthroat competition to drive its competitors peti tors out of business the latter method has been used by the germans in south air america cerica the united states Is now nm applying similar tactics insofar as pro axis business Is concerned ned there is a difference however the united states Is working with tile tho help of the south americans in most cases to an end which they recognize will benefit all As in the case of military warfare sacrifices ore are necessary in eco cco warfare as well american amer can allowed manufacturers are not allowed to trade with the axis axis controlled inns firms 1 in south america which have been put on tho the blacklist by the pr president eside t tho the south americans suffer er to temporarily pora rily too much es as a notion nation s suffers when it Is 13 tile tho filly ally of afton another or nation fighting an enemy on its own soil incidentally it Is ingerd interesting sting to note that the grandson ot of the man whose trust Is famous in history for its ruthless methods of obtaining a monopoly john D rockefeller Is now heading ono one of the or organizations which Is attempting to bring tho the southern and northern nations of tile the western hemisphere into one great combine to compete with the axis trust in am americas economic warfare there Is no rough stuff that Is the competitors stores and warehouses are not burned or destroyed nor la is violence resorted to but every possible use of the dollar which is 13 the most powerful economic weep weapon in tho the world today to Is employed to destroy the efforts of the axis four campaigns are under way there are arc tour four separate campaigns now being conducted aa against ainest the axis in south america by our e economic general staff one Is based on agreements to purchase over a period of time south american surplus products product especially war materials such do as zinc lead tin copper nit nitrates tates this not only prevents such materials from tailing into axis hands but provides a dollar exchange with which south america can buy from us things which she might otherwise buy elsewhere the second economic drive Is to force the transfer ot of commercial agencies from axis into native south american hands blacklisting black dlack listing pro axis firms helps this his t for instance for years the dominating commission business in the city of la paz has been handled by germans suddenly these thosa germans lose nil all american accounts are cut off from american credits their business Is ruined the united states enczur age agea 9 a prominent Doli bolivian vinn family to establish a commission business it gets the profitable united states accounts american personnel and other help is furnished the axis firm Is smashed A nother another means of ousting ax axis Is influence Is to eliminate foreign control of the airlines for Us purpose po so jesse jones secretary of commerce has organized an airlines development company a government corporation this company will lend money to any south american ican country for the development of airports give it priority on the purchase of planes provided that country gets rid of the german or other foreign owned lines within its b borders or this step has peen been taken in bolivia which has nationalized its internal air airlines linea and removed german pilots this action has also removed a vital link tir the german international transportation system which has served peru bolivia brazil zil and argentina in many of tho the countries the tha airlines are already nationalized but tn in some places german pilots are still lying flying the planes pianos in brazil german controlled lines exist but many concessions have been granted to the united states in central america the lines are all controlled by a new zealander who started out with an old ford plane hauling freight the fourth plan of economic battle Is tho the gover government ament loan loans are advanced to south american governments ern ments for the purpose of keeping the local currency stabilized loans are also made for internal developments irrigation projects and port developments which it Is expected will pay out over a long period of years will tend to increase the standard of living in the locality and thus open new markets tor for american goods |