Word: interallied
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Meanwhile, Photographer Scherman went on taking pictures without inter ference. Indeed, as the Nazis prepared to sink the Zamzam with time bombs, a Nazi lieutenant showed Scherman the best place to stand. Said he in precise English: "Sometimes they die quite gracefully and always they are different...
...State Department is a party to the Inter-American Coffee Agreement, by which coffee quotas were allocated among all the coffee republics last fall. The State Department in fact represents the only major coffee customer these republics have left. The original quota for U.S. consumption was set at 15.9 million bags, 2 million more than the U.S. had ever drunk in a year. The U.S. had 1.5 million bags on hand when the agreement started, and has since upped the quota by another 260,000 bags. But the inventory plight of the small U.S. buyers was Latin America...
...fact that organized fifth columns were scattered throughout both the Americas, the U.S. already had four official agencies devoted to keeping the Americas one big family: the Pan American Union, the Department of State's Division of Cultural Relations, the Library of Congress' Hispanic Foundation, The Inter-Departmental Committee on Cooperation with the American Republics. Also interested were no less than 16 semi-official organizations such as the Committee on Cultural Relations with Latin America and the Council for Pan American Democracy, plus many smaller groups. These, however, did not seem to be enough. Into the breach sped...
...some of its money to encourage organizations in the Latin-American countries to do some of the work the Committee is trying to do alone. The Cultural Relations section, under onetime Minister to Portugal and Bolivia Robert Granville Caldwell has obtained U.S. scholarships for Latin-American doctors, planned an Inter-American Academy of Sciences and a Cultural Institute, sent out a traveling exhibition of paintings, etc. It has done nothing yet to combat German textbooks, written by German educators but wisely translated and sponsored by eminent Spaniards...
...countries should unite in a bloc, excluding the U.S. and the rest of Latin America. The Rockefeller Committee is not responsible for major U.S. diplomacy in Latin America. That tortuous and gigantic task belongs to the U.S. State Department. The Rockefeller Committee's job is to harmonize inter-American cultural and commercial relations and is chiefly one of propaganda-put a case in its best possible light...