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C I RECOGNIZE SMALL NATIONS One result of the Big Four con conferences conferences may be a greater participation participation pation of small nations in the Unites Nations councils President Roose Roosevelt Roosevelt velt is known to advocate this Also he would like to shift the counci meetings from London to Washing Washing- I ton I The idea of greater recognition of 0 I little n nations 3 s based not only Ot fairness and equity but al also o on th the I fact that Latin American nations art are I getting increasingly hurt it if not pro pro- provoked yoked over being left out of at important im United Nations parleys A large number of small nations nation are now belligerents having declared de- de declared war against Germany while at least two of them Brazil and I Mexico are strategically vi vital l to the war Without Brazilian bases for instance it would be almost im- im impossible impossible possible to ferry planes back and forth to North Africa with such rapid efficiency It was originally planned in I ad-I ad- ad advance vance conversations prior to Mos Mos- Moscow I cow between Undersecretary ex-Undersecretary of o f I State Sumner Welles and Roosevelt also between the President and an d Churchill to include smaller mem- mem members members bers of the United Nations in an a n over all organization A smaller council of Great Britain Russia the th e United States and China was to guide guid e 1 the over all organization but the th ee e smaller nations were to be a very definite and important part of the th e setup Also it was planned to have Unit Unit- d Nations headquarters in the fresh fresh- fresher er en more idealistic atmosphere of o Washington not in the Old World Worl d atmosphere of London de Secretary Hull was not quite able abl e to put these two ideas across at Mos Mos- Moscow cow butt but the Presidents President's persuasive influence on Stalin and Churchil may do so He considers both items item important to getting a permanent i peace organization off with the right foot forward CAREER DIPLOMATS ATS Career diplomats are worried worrie d about a state department puffs policy Y dY which brings new men into the for for- foreign eign service at higher rates of pay pay- pay even including some men who hay have e previously failed to pass career service ice examinations Known as auxiliaries they are arc appointed for the duration of the th e war But Assistant Secretary of o State Howland Shaw recently hints hinted a that they may be kept indefinitely Alexander Schnee 29 twice failed the foreign service examination He then took a job with the commerce department and when the war came was made an auxiliary for for- foreign foreign eign service officer He is now at- at attached Cached to the U. U S. S embassy at Buenos Aires at If he had passed the exams in the first place he would now be getting only Fred H. H H Await Awalt 33 likewise failed the foreign service exam later was appointed as an auxiliary and is serving as junior economic analyst at which is more than he would be getting if he had not tailed failed the examinations Men who have passed those exams a four day series of tests and the toughest in the resent government the fact that they are being topped in pay by other candidates from outside ee PROTECTING TilE THE PRESIDENT The only people in the U. U S. S A. A who are really made unhappy by the Presidents President's travels especially overseas are the Secret Service They spend sleepless nights until he comes home again worried that something may happen On last winters winter's overseas junket to Casablanca an extraordinary measure of protection was taken Nothing like it has ever been seen in the history of the world A great armada of ships of all kinds mostly fighting ships was assembled near the bulge of Brazil and also near the bulge of West Nest Africa The ships moved out along the path which the President was to follow and practically practically covered every square mile of the Atlantic at this narrow cross cross- ing The President himself was flying overhead in a Pan American clip clip- clipper per and the purpose of the ships was to form what the navy called a net of protection It was to serve the President as the net in the circus serves the trapeze artists If the Presidents President's plane were forced down into the sea no matter where there would be at least one ship at that spot to rescue him No such plan was used on his latest trip however The mode of protection protection tion cannot now be revealed but when the story is told it will show an entirely different strategy e e e I CAPITAL C CHAFF AFF C. C I. I Diplomatic grapevine reports th it the state department is in for a de de- delightful satire in Sidney Barons Baron's forthcoming book One Whirl Those who have pee peeped ed at advance proofs say the appeasement boys wont won't like it C. C I. I While the Ul United ted States for rea- rea reasons sons of policy is ing from Argentine market John Bull Bull is still plugging his old slogan in Argen- Argen tina D flan Buy y British This slogan i is featured In British magazine adver adver- advertisements in Argentina even now R |