Show Fascist Neighbors DECENT RECENT REVOLUTION and rioting rioting riot- riot iL ing lag ing in Latin America has pointed up what the American public public pub pub- lic Uc has long dimly realized namely namely namely name name- ly that while we are fighting Communism Communism Com Corn in Europe we are losing out to fascism at our own front door Panama which surrounds the most important waterway in the world so far as the United States is concerned is now now in the hands of a dictator Arnulfo Arias who had roots in Germany and Italy during the days of Hitler and Mus Mus- Just before Pearl Harbor we considered him such a menace the United States helped to euchre him out of the presidency In Colombia a country equally vital to the strategic waterway which links west east-west shipping the bloodiest riots in history have been taking place Approximately 1000 people have been killed and a Fascist party deliberately aided and abetted by dictator Franco of Spain has instituted such terror that it was impossible to hold two- two way elections While U. U US U.S. S. S senators have ha been guzzling dictator Francos Franco's lush losh wines In Madrid Franco has been pulling the rug right out from under tinder U. U S. S policy polie in one of the most important countries In the Pan-American Pan union Months ago Laureano Gomez now the Colombian strong man went to Madrid Madrid- and arranged with Franco FIanco to have hi his shock Falange forces smuggled into Colombia disguised disguised disguised dis dis- dis- dis guised in the robes of priests Bloodshed and rioting has followed ever since a S Truman's Idea In the White House Harry Truman Truman Truman Tru Tru- man speaks glowingly of his visits to Mexico and Brazil He is also delighted at the prospect of making making mak mak- ing hug a trip to Chile He considers Pan-American Pan relations one of his most important policies and if anyone walked i in and told him the neighbor good-neighbor policy had bogged down he just wouldn't believe it But the trouble with President Truman is that he thinks of Pan- Pan American friendship in terms of getting out a lot of flags lags and the brass bands to greet President Dutra of Brazil He doesn't realize that the neighbor good-neighbor policy must be closely coordinated and carefully carefully carefully care care- fully carried out every day of the year Over in the state department meanwhile one of the best young men in some years Edward Miller Miller Mil Mil- ler is assistant secretary for Latin America Miller was born in Puerto to Rico speaks Spanish knows Latin America intimately works hard at his job Over in the import export-import bank banic also far more loans have been advanced advanced advanced ad ad- in Latin America than most people realize I. I I But a successful neigh good bor policy isn't built up merely by dumping money into Latin America or giving rousing welcomes to visiting pan Amer ican potentates Today we have a lot of well well- meaning cogs in our diplomatic machinery but sometimes they seem to be turning separately and andin andin andin in different directions In brief brie the gears do not mesh v S S Jesse Jones' Jones Rival It looks like Jesse Jones long considered the financial czar and once an aspiring political czar of Texas now has a real rival He is Texas oil tycoon Glenn McCarthy of Houston who recently helped I mastermind Sam Rayburn Day I McCarthy already has built a swank story 15 hotel in Houston I the Shamrock and now aspires to I build a new business center on the outskirts of Houston To finance it McCarthy is reported in the market for an In loan and it was considered significant that he sent his plush private airplane to Washington to fly some officials to Houston for Sam Rayburn Day Taking the free ride to Texas for the big Democratic jamboree were James Consodine controller controller con con- trailer and Allen Freeze his assistant assistant assistant as as- with their two wives Neither Neith Neith- er is a Texan Another official Narvin Weaver assistant loan manager declined an invitation because he admitted afterward It might not look right It is seldom that an art official has such scruples and refuses a free ride for this reason Of course Jesse Jones when head of the powerful did not hesitate to accept trips in ina ina ina a private car on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad at a time when he was lending lending- mancy money money mon man ey cy to that road And it will be Interesting to see whether Jesses Jesse's rival now will get a aloan aloan aloan loan from th the Note Democratic political factions taco inc in Houston were split over the Sam Rayburn celebration While Sam is personally popular with all ranks of at Democrats the theOld theOld theOld Old Guard did not cooperate |