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> So pro-Nazi is another Monterrey distributor that he cannot get a visitor's permit to the U. S. But he represents, among others, Bethlehem Steel.
Last week Nelson Rockefeller's men were still busy talking to the U. S. companies which had pro-Nazi agents in Latin America. Some changes, with or without Rockefeller prompting, have already been made. Socony-Vacuum's former Monterrey manager, Herr Wilhelm Giesecke (a regular caller at the Nazi Consulate) is "no longer employed." Joseph A. Heedles, the U. S.-born (Brooklyn, N. Y.) member of Mexico City's famed distributing firm of Heedles & Breidsprecher, longtime agents for Du Pont, Remington Arms, Fairbanks, Morse & Co., etc., this month bought out his German partner. Some U. S. exporters are naturally reluctant to break old and profitable trade relationships so long as the U. S., not being at war, has no official blacklist. Some have long made a point of neither knowing nor caring about the political complexion of their Mexican distributors, any more than they care about that of their domestic customers or employes. But most have been thoroughly cooperative when the U. S. Government has made informal representations. Apart from patriotism, they have a reason of self-interest to seek new agents below the border: Many German agents would drop American lines like hot potatoes if the Führer ever settles his account with England.