Show 0 washington D 0 GOOD NEIGHBOR IB OR OPERATION cooperation CO the united states Is getting much better operation cooperation co from some of our south american neighbors than has leaked out to the public when portugal protested to the united states against roosevelt Roosevel ts fireside chat hinting the seizure of the azores the brazilian government immediately got in touch tonch 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 do d janeiro immediately showed foreign minister aranha a summary ol of our proposed reply and aranha volunteered to send portugal exactly the same an answer awer telling them it was v vital ital 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 if and when the time comes to occupy the azores argentina also has been more cooperative than ever despite the diehard boits of our rocky mountain congressmen to prevent the importation of argentine canned beef argentine sentiment Is overwhelmingly antl anti hitler and pro roosevelt the Ar gentines are much stronger tor 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 tha t 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 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 reg regular ular army and while such troops are available ab lethe the bottoms to transport them a are re a something om ething else again once before the british urged us not to get 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 policy in the south atlantic atlant ti and if necessary land troops on t the he bulge of africa CATHEDRAL OF agriculture paul 11 appleby diminutive didactic da undersecretary of agriculture made a flying trip to nebraska the other day which had some interesting te inside a background purpose of the trip was to set up what some agricultural hands call cail 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 root roof and under one director at lincoln these were to include the AAA rural electrification administration soil soa conservation farm security extension service farm debt adjustment and so 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 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 C cal at ward chief objector was fred wallace chairman of the nebraska AAA and it was to bring him into line that appleby flew out to nebraska appleby had first ordered wallace to washington but wallace refused even after appleby flew out to see him he be could not make wallace budge im interested in an agricultural program not a lot of bureaucracy reau cracy wallace said appleby stayed an extra da day finally flew back to washington his cathedral of agriculture for nebraska definitely sidetracked side tracked note secretary of agriculture has been looking around to find a new berth for his undersecretary outside of the agriculture de apartment part ment ir army movies mie 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 nt has organized the army motion picture service which in a few months has become one of the largest theater chains in the country with about theaters in operation era tion there Is at last one movie theater in every army camp with shows hows seven nights a week plus plu saturday and sunday matinees mati nees |