More Alphabet

The Administration is going to have another fling at making sense of its patchwork of press and information bureaus. Plans for it were cooking last week. It was a plan of Rooseveltian caliber; and it added more alphabet to the soup.

To cure the confusion of agencies within agencies, and agencies without any connections, working enthusiastically at cross-purposes, a new and better agency would be created. On top of the Coordinator of Information, on top of the information section of the Office for Emergency Management, on top of the Rockefeller Committee, on top of the Office of Facts & Figures, a new office would be set up.

Its probable name: the Office of War Information (OWI). Its job: to supersede the information services of all the others, to act as an issuing office, frankly putting out the stories that the Government wants published.

Most of Washington believed that the President's choice for the job was amiable News Analyst Elmer Davis. An able man, although a peculiar choice for such a job, he had one worthwhile qualification: nobody in Washington has any particular reason for disliking him. But he was said to have refused the job. Mr. Davis said it wasn't so. ("I'm not in the habit of refusing jobs that are not offered to me.")

But Davis or no Davis, rumors or no rumors, plans were in the making for a super press bureau -something that, in the terminology of other countries, might be called a Ministry of Information & Propaganda.

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