Dear Subscriber

From now on you will find in your copy of TIME more news of the other countries of North and South America--and you will find it told in two new departments, "Canada at War" and "Latin America."

For in these days of hemisphere solidarity, when the destinies of all the Americas are being so closely braided together and when all of us are so interested in the new economic frontiers that are opening up to the north and to the south of us, it no longer makes sense to report as "foreign" news the great changes that are taking place in the Americas.

The two new sections will both be brief--but in these few columns each week our editors will try to give you quickly a better balanced and more authoritative understanding of what is going on north and south of our borders than you can get from any other U.S. newspaper or magazine.

TIME'S group journalism will, of course, make sure that both sections are edited strictly from the U.S. point of view. By this I mean that we will not tell you any news of Canada and Latin America that is not of interest and importance to educated, world-minded people in this country (regardless of how important it may seem to citizens of the country where it happened).

But the men and women who will do the actual reporting, researching and writing for these new departments have such an intimate, first-hand knowledge of the places they will be telling you about that I think you might like to know something about these TIME people.

For example, Canadian Editor Robert T. Elson had 19 years^1 experience on Dominion newspapers. Most recently he has been Washington correspondent for the six Southam news papers, Canada's biggest chain, and for the London Daily Mail. An authority on Canadian politics and economics, he contributed regularly to the Financial Post (Canada's Wall Street Journal), went on the air each week as a commentator for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.

Working closely with Elson will be newsmen reporting to TIME from 14 key cities of Canada--from Calgary, Edmonton, Halifax, Hamilton, London, Montreal, Ottawa, Quebec, Regina, Saint John, Toronto, Vancouver. Windsor and Winnipeg. (Elson will also be able to draw on the service of the Canadian Press--a service enjoyed by no other American magazine.)

Latin American counterpart of Elson and his staff is a team of three. Writing this news for you is Jonathan Norton Leonard, who has been to Latin America four times since 1933, lived in Cuba, Mexico, Venezuela and Peru, married a Peruvian girl. Researcher is Chile-born Paz Davila, who also knows Colombia, Peru, Ecuador and every Central American country except Costa Rica. Working with them to give our Latin American news a still further knowing touch is a leading Latin American journalist, Daniel del Solar, former editor of the Latin American news service of the Associated Press.

With one exception, TIME was the first American newspaper or newsmagazine to open its own editorial offices in both Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires. And we also have reporters in 14 other Latin American news centers, most of whom not only cover spot news but send us a long monthly newsletter on economic and political developments which have not yet made headlines but which may well have greater long-range significance from the American point of view.

Cordially,

P.I. Pren Rico

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