Show aap R W R washington D C IMPORTING PORTING ni COTTON for years the united states has had a huge surplus of cotton the idea of importing cotton seemed fantastic yet that is exactly wh what at is about to be done as the latest development in the good neighbor policy oscar johnson leading Mis mississippi sissi cotton planter and former official of of the AAA will go to south america to buy surplus cotton from peru and brazil he carries a checkbook of the commodity credit corporation whose chose funds for domestic and foreign crop purchases amount to both peru and brazil are suffering in severely from loss of foreign markets brazils cotton was sold in in E perus to both lat in american countries wholeheartedly backed the united states at the rio conference and now uncle sam is returning the favor for some time department of agriculture ri officials fearful of outcries from the cotton belt were timid about buying foreign cotton they thought they might get away awa with purchases for storage in south america but not for imports into the U S but two agriculture officials john B hudson president of commodity credit and sam bledsoe aidt aide to LU secretary claude conceived the smart idea of putting the plan squarely up to southern congressmen with oscar johnson as the choice for buyer this worked like a charm cotton congressmen have full confidence in johnson and they even approved importing some cotton especially the long staple variety from peru which does not directly compete with U S cotton meantime plans are being made to purchase other latin american agricultural surpluses including beef and vegetable oils but argentina which is suffering ering more than any other country will get no U S help while president castillo remains on the neutrality fence MERRY GO CO ROUND president roosevelt has indicated to democratic chiefs who urged him to tour the country that he may take a transcontinental trip this summer if the war permits democratic candidates facing tough election battles are eager to have him visit their states also the president long has wanted to inspect several army camps and war production centers HOPKINS LOOKS AT WAR following his trip to england harry hopkins is giving close friends a very optimistic picture about the war situation he is convinced that hitler is really alarmed at the tough resistance of the russians the growing war strength of the united states and the fear of an invasion on the european continent one of hillers Hit lers greatest weaknesses hopkins believes is manpower german industry has done a great job hitherto but now nov with an increasing drain dr nin on both industry and the aerman army the tremendous losses at the russian front are having a definite effect to his close friends harry hopkins II is known as one of the most optimistic men in the administration but even discounting this natural optimism other war chiefs in a position to know seem to have a fairly bright look in their eyes recently it will be a long time before we can begin to do any real crowing for the situation in the near east js is almost as sour as the very very sour situation in india it does look however as if the spring had definitely brightened the war picture a anis DOTAGE inside word brought back from italy by those in the know gives a desolate picture of benito mussolini he has been pretty well isolated from the war command and from direction of the government both of which are dictated directly or indirectly by nazis mussolini has gone in for reminiscing on his younger days when he was a militant young socialist part of the time exiled in switzerland he has even sent for hi his s old socialist friends including si some me previously exiled to france and they have sat around talking about the good old days when they were young maybe this is insanity maybe it s just getting back to sanity after 20 long years of delusions of grandeur eran deur POWER PROBE A powerful lobby is again back on the washington scene driven out of the capital a few years ago by the blasting investigation of justice hu hugo go black then U S senator from alabama the utility forces have quietly resumed their undercover pressure operations inquiries at this office eli elicited cited the explanation that the purpose of the power interests was to facilitate operation cooperation co with the government in the war effort |