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Those who have had business abroad (Herbert Lehman's OFRR, Nelson Rockefeller's OCIAA, Elmer Davis' OWI) have slowly, painfully learned that all foreign business must funnel through the State Department. The hard-to-handle exception was Henry Wallace's Board of Economic Warfare. When BEW was scrapped by Executive Order, Secretary Hull promptly stepped up and claimed the scrap pile...
...OCIAA (Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs), Nelson Rockefeller's agency, works on cultural, political and commercial relations with Latin America...
...radio businessmen, the broadcasters had been haunted all along by a spectre of the Government "taking over" radio. This made them touchy. As short-wave professionals, they had been skeptical of the quality of material sent to them by OCI and OCIAA. In some cases their skepticism was justified. OCI, in particular, made propaganda mistakes. There were failures of coordination. There was a general failure to hold fast to the essential work in hand, which...
...plan was submitted to the Director of the Budget for the short-wave time and facilities of all U.S. companies to be "leased" by the Government for the duration. Whatever else this might mean, it would certainly carry with it real and responsible program authority for OCI and OCIAA. Would short-wave propaganda then take a kicking around from shortsighted, over-zealous appointees? Or would the best brains of companies and Government get together for a wise and unified short-wave program...
...press section were about 400 people. Others: the Office of Censorship (OC); the Office of Government Reports (OGR); the Office of Government Films (OGF); the Office of the Coordinator of Information (OCI), the Army & Navy press sections, the Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs (OCIAA), and the White House's own Executive Office. The Office of Civilian Defense (OCD) is building a large press bureau...