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...principle that good neighbors should hand pictures of themselves across the sea, Nelson Rockefeller's Committee for Cultural Relations with Latin America is shipping boatloads of good modern U.S. art from one Latin-American capital to the next. Earlier this summer, shows opened in Mexico City and Buenos Aires...
...Buenos Aires show drew to a close. It moves next to Montevideo, then to Rio. The Mexico City exhibition goes next to Santiago, Lima, Quito; the Bogotá show will travel to Caracas and Havana. By year's end Nelson Rockefeller's convoys will have visited ten Latin-American capitals...
...Latin-American arena last week the U.S. fist smashed full into the Axis face. The sparring for the goods and good will of a continent was over. A Roosevelt proclamation made it total economic war. Some 1,800 firms and individuals in business from Rio Grande to Cape Horn were publicly declared to be Axis-owned or Axis-aiding, put on a blacklist. From now on none of these firms can receive U.S. goods. All their assets and credits in the U.S. are frozen...
This was a victory for young Nelson Rockefeller and his committee on Latin-American trade and cultural relations. For months Rockefeller has told President Roosevelt that the U.S. would have to keep up its exports to Latin America-defense program or no-or take a back seat to the Axis. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles agreed. But OPM's Ed Stettinius and OPACS' Leon Henderson stood pat against any exports that would take materials away from defense or essential civilian needs. Now the Presidential nod has gone to Rockefeller (partly because a Nazi freighter recently slipped through...
...force a peace. If he conquered Russia, he might propose to stop fighting. He might proclaim his long-awaited European Confederation, begin producing his long-touted New Order, stand before the world as the organizer of Europe. He might make trade offers to Latin America, count on do-nothing sentiment in the U.S. and Latin-American pressure on Britain to soften up the U.S. and Britain for appeasement...