Show 0 UND OR A washington D C RECOGNIZE SMALL NATIONS one result of the big four con feren ferencek ces may be a greater pation of small nations in the nations councils president roose velt elt is k known n ow n to a advocate advocate this also he he w would asiu I 1 d li like ke t to 0 shift hift the counci meetings from london to washing ton the idea of greater recognition oi little nations is is based not only or oi fairness and equity but also on th the f fact that latin american nations are ar getting increasingly hurt if not provoked over being left out of important important Port arit united nations parleys A large number of small nations are now belligerents having declared war against germany while at t least two of them brazil and mexico are strategically vital vial to the war without brazilian bases for instance it would be almost impossible to ferry planes back and forth to north africa with such rapid efficiency it t was brigina originally y p planned anne in advance conversations prior to moscow between ex undersecretary of state sumner welles and roosevelt also between the president and churchill to include smaller members of the united nations in an overall over all organization A smaller council of great britain russia the united states and china was to guide the overall over all organization but the smaller nations were to be a very definite and important part of the setup I 1 also it was planned to have unit id d nations headquarters in the fresher more idealistic atmosphere of washington not in the 01 old d world atmosphere of london secretary hull was not quite able to put these two ideas across at moscow but the presidents persuasive influence on stalin and churchill may do so he considers both items important to getting a permanent peace organization off with the right toot boot forward CAREER DIPLOMATS career diplomats are worried about a state department policy which brings new men into the foreign service at higher rates of pay even including some men who have previously failed to pass career service examinations known as auxiliaries they are appointed for the duration of the var A a r but assistant secretary of state howland shaw recently hinted that they may be kept indefinitely alexander schnee 29 twice failed fahe d the foreign service ex examination hp he then took a j job ob with the commerce department and when the war same ame was made an auxiliary foreign service officer he is now attached t to the U S embassy at buenos aires at if he had passed the exams in the first place he would now be gett getting 0 only fred H awalt await 33 lik likewise dewise 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 failed the examinations men who have passed those exams a four day series of tests and the toughest in the government resent the fact that they are being topped in pay by other candidates outside 0 a protecting THE PRESIDENT the only people in the U S A who are really made unhappy by the presidents travels especially overseas are the secret service they spend sleepless nights until he cohe canies conies S home again worried that something may happen on last winters 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 africa the ships moved out along the path which the president was to follow an and I 1 pr practically covered every square mile of the atlantic at this narrow crossing the president himself was flying overhead in a pan american ca 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 serve the trapeze ar artists lists if the presidents plane wre re 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 cannot now be revealed but when the story is told it will show an entirely different strategy 0 CAPITAL CHAFF C diplomatic grapevine reports hit the state department is in for a delightful satire in sidney barons forthcoming book one whirl those who have peeped at advance proofs say the appeasement boys wont like it C while the united states for reasons of policy is withdrawing from the argentine market john bull I 1 is s still plu plugging ging his old slogan in argen tina ina buy british this slogan is featured in british magazine advertisements ti in hi argentina even now |