Washington, Dec. 9.
President Roosevelt intends to ask Congress for a grant of $1,000,000 an-unally, to combat German and Italian propaganda efforts in Latin America, it is Tearned here.
He will ask for this appropriation in January next year, it is stated, and the amount will be spent on ce-operation in non-military affairs with all Latin-American republics.
A programme for such ce-operation, covering political, cultural and economic relations, has already been drawn up by an inter-Departmental Committee, appointed by the President.
This Committee recommended continuing the policy of ce-operation with Latin "America, which, it is estimated, will cost about $1,000,000 annually, and which would render closer and more effective the ties between the United States and other countries in America.
Committee Recommendation The Committee's report recommended, among other things, "Discussions based on the premise that the New World Republics have the same aspirations; that the welfare of the nation demands their in-
Y close friendly association at, through a programme of practical and reciprocal ce-operation, the fulfilment of our common American ideals can be brought appreciably closer to achievement.
"If this premise is correct, and the Committee is profoundly convinced that it is, then the programme outlined is merely the point of departure in the direction of an increasing vigorous and affirmative relationship between the Republics of the Ameri-cen hemisphere—a relationship founded on voluntary ce-operation between the partners, living as friendly neigh-tours, of the American world."
Wide Basis of Ca-operation The programme recoi mended by President Roose It's embodies 74 specie items among Which are ce-operation in wireless, aviation, and road-buildin, and the stimulation of travel fron the United States to Latin America, training Latin-American scholars and tech-ans in United States Government departments, the distribution of United States Government publications in Latin America, the exchange of mutually informative füms, and subsidised visits by various American cultural groups to South and Central America American my leader: too, are aping to double the number of United Sta military attaches in South America, to offset the various proposals by German and Italian military departments to send missions to Latin-American Republics.—Reuter.
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