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on pe: : As Pegier Sees it: Rudio Coffee Coup Set Moral Pattern By WESTBROOK PEGLER fn 1041, when:Charles Van Doren was only 15 years old, Eleano evelt was the heroine of a radio deal which involved.the State Department, a sen of Harry Hopkins and the wife of Ernest Lingley, the Washington political columnist of Newsweck. Mrs. Roosevelt's exploit and Van Doren‘s, 16 years later, had phases of resemblance. The Van Doren family, or cult, were devolecs of the Rooseve)t regime. In 1941, Eleanor got $1,000 a week } en a contract to run either 13 or 26 weeks, at her oplion, spleling for coffee. The sponsor was the Pan- American Coffee Burcau. Its purpooc was to increase the consumption of coffee In the United States and the price to the American consumer. Toe radio program was financed by an export tax which witimately was PEGLER recouped in a higher retail price to American consumers. . eee ee ee ne te ti Under F. D. Nooseveli's GooU-neignosr progism, nations which did not produce coffee bul did export tin, tallow and guano were aggrieved by this favorit- fam. The National Coffee Association, this country's chamber of commerce for coffee, promptly broke off relations with jls South American equivalent, known as the Pan-American Coffee Bureau. The Association refused to take responsibility for this expenditure of “public funds” without “equivalent authority over expenditures.” This language occurred In the Assocla- ¥ ma! notice to the South American Bureau gaaied duiy 23, 164i. _- porte ® OR wee? shew The Vashiagion Pest ead... Times Herald The Waebiegion Dally News The Eventing Star Mew York Herald Tribuze New York Jound-Anericen Le New Yor Wire: New York Daily News Nee York Past The New York Times The Worker The few Leader... The Vell Etreet Joeneat Dete ____.._.___..,_ ' pee EVV Te bis |