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...confusion. Fortnight ago Franklin Roosevelt got fed up. He set the Office of Facts & Figures at the top, as No. 1 information agency of the Government; the same time he muzzled his Cabinet by ordering that all speeches and statements must be submitted first to OFF Chief Archibald MacLeish, Pulitzer Prize poet,* former FORTUNE editor, and Librarian of Congress...
...Editors of Truth. The U.S. knew little about Archibald MacLeish, Illinois-born 49-year-old journalist, who studied at Harvard to be a lawyer, was so highly regarded that men thought he might some day be the hope of the Boston bar. But at Yale MacLeish had begun to write poetry. He left the law, went to Paris, saw the town and the world much as other American expatriates. Returning, he became a writer-editor of FORTUNE in 1930. As a general journalist he was superb. When the Japs struck at Pearl Harbor, and Americans turned to their reference works...
...Allies. In the U.S., Director Archibald MacLeish of OFF declared the Axis campaign to spread discord among the United Nations to be "as shrewd, as ruthless as any plot of the Borgias." Axis radio spray to the U.S.: "American policy is dictated in Downing Street . . . will leave America holding the bag." To Brit ain: "The British Empire is dissolving like a lump of sugar in the Roosevelt teacup...
...Latin America. As unity grew out of the Pan-American conference at Rio, said Director MacLeish, the Axis beam to South America became a frantic torrent. Since most Latin Americans are Catholics, the Italian radio portrayed "Protestant Roosevelt" in an alliance with "Atheist Stalin" against "Catholic Fascism." Another Axis broadcast asserted that the Vatican had urged Latin America not to break with the Axis. This the Vatican promptly denied...
Appointed to a policy board to advise him on "coordination and integration" are Vice President Wallace, the Secretaries of War, Navy, Treasury, Attorney General Biddle, Postmaster General Walker (chair man), OGR's Lowell Mellett and OFF's Archibald MacLeish - but how much active part they will take is still problematical...