Show IR washington D C GOOD NEIGHBOR CO OPERATION cooperation the united states as is getting much better operation cooperation co from some of our south american neighbors than has beaked out to the public when portugal protested to the united states against Roosevel ts fireside chat hinting the seizure of the azores the brazilian government immediately got in touch with the U S state department the portuguese had sent the brazilians Brazi lians a copy of their protest and brazil asked us what reply we were going to make ambassador caffrey in rio de janeiro immediately showed foreign minister aranha a summary ot of our proposed reply and aranha volunteered to send portugal exactly the game answer 1 telling them it was vital to the safety of the western hemisphere that the azores be in friendly hands and that brazil could not afford to see the islands taken by the axis this message was sent which means that brazil will operate cooperate co with the united states it and when the time comes to occupy the azores argentina also has been more cooperative than ever despite the diehard efforts of our rocky mountain congressmen to prevent the importation of argentine canned beef argentine sentiment is overwhelmingly anti hitler and pro roosevelt the Ar gentines are much stronger for roosevelt than for the united states and have their fingers crossed as to what may happen after roosevelt leaves office dakar and robin moor for approximately one month however all white house advisers have agreed that the azores were far less important than dakar and the coast of west africa that is what makes the sinking of the robin moor by a nazi submarine so doubly significant despite the menace of dakar presidential advisers have been worried as to what we should do about it to take dakar from the french and to hold it against all comers would require more men than the in the U S marine corps it would require an expeditionary force from the regular army and while such troops are available the bottoms to transport them are something else again once before the british urged us not to 9 get et mixed up in the south atlantic because it would divert our navy from the all important north atlantic the sinking of the robin moor however has played directly into the hands of those who have been urging the president to adopt the strongest and if necessary land troops on the bulge of africa CATHEDRAL OF agriculture paul H appleby diminutive didactic undersecretary of agriculture made a flying trip to nebraska the other day which had some interesting te inside background purpose of the trip was to set up what some agricultural hands call a cathedral of agriculture in lincoln neb what appleby was working on was a plan to pool all of the different federal agricultural agencies under one roof and under one director at these were to include the AAA rural electrification administration soil conservation farm security extension service farm debt adjustment and s so 0 on the plan was to make the state of nebraska a guinea pig to test the idea all of these different farm representatives would then report to one director in lincoln rather than to washington however the proposed nebraska director was cal ward regional supervisor of farm security and although working for a democratic administration he is branded as a staunch republican his selection therefore caused opposition from various federal farm representatives in nebraska who want to join any cathedral of agriculture under cal ward chief objector was fred wallace chairman of the nebraska AAA and it was to bring him into line that appleby new lew out to nebraska appleby had first ordered wallace to washington but wallace refused even after appleby flew out to see him he could not make wallace budge im interested in an agricultural program not a lot of bureaucracy reau cracy wallace said appleby stayed an extra day finally flew back to washington his cathedral cathedra I 1 of agriculture for nebraska definitely sidetracked side tracked note secretary of agriculture ickard NV has been looking oldrig lo round around a to find a new berth for his undersecretary outside of the agriculture department part ment 1 army BI I ovies ie movies are the top amusement of the boys in camp and the army gives them all they want at bargain prices for this purpose the war department has organized the army motion picture service which in a few months has become one of the largest larg e st theater chains in the country with about theaters in operation era tion there is at least one movie theater in every army camp with shows seven nights a week plus saturday and sunday matinees mati nees |