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Tolsol Belmont DaLede McGuire Moht Parson Rosen Tamm A. Pegler Sees It:. Gandy Radio Coffee 'Coup Set Moral Pattern By WESTBROOK PEGLER ITN 1041, whem;Charles Van Doren was on!y I5 years. old, ElcanoPRoosevelt was the heroine 6f a radio Idea! which involved.the State Depariment, a son of Harry Hopkins and the wlife of Ernest Lindley, the Washington political columnist of Newsweck. Mrs.. Roosevell's exploit and Van Doren's. 16 years Iater. had phases'oI resemblancc. The Van Doren family, or cult, were derotees Of the Roosevelt regime. In 1941, Eltanor tot $1.000 a week on a contract to run either 13 or 26 wecks, al her oplion, spleling for coffet. The sponsor was the Pan- American Colfee Bureau. Its purposc was to incrcase the consumption of coffce In the United 5tates and the price to ihe American consumer. The radio program was financed by an exporl tax which uitimately was PEGLER recouped in - higher retai! price to American consumers. Under F. D. Aoosevelt's good-nelghbor progrsm. nations which did not ptoduce coiiee but did export The Teshie tin, tallow and guano were aggrleved by this favorit- ttHea ism. The Nationa! Coffec Assoclation, this country's The Wesblagton Dedly New chamber of commerce for coffee. promptly broke off relatlons with Its Souih American equivalent, known as the Pan-American Coffee Burcau. The Association refused to take responsibility for this expenditure of "pubiic funds" wlinout "equivalent authority orer expenditures." This language occurred in the Axsocla- Yon's forma! not!ce to the South American Burcau dated Juiy 23, 1041. : : She Vell Street Jeamt H..111.09 f0.