"The best good-will propaganda is to sell South America to North America," Welles wrote coordinator Nelson Rockefeller.Callow, Simon, Orson Welles: Hello Americans. New York: Viking Penguin 2006 page 159 Welles drew upon the research amassed earlier in 1942 for It's All True, the film project he had embarked upon also at the request of Rockefeller, who was a major RKO Pictures stockholder and Welles admirer as well as Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. It was hoped that the dramatizations would counteract German and Italian propaganda and build solidarity among American republics in the hemisphere.Brady, Frank, Citizen Welles: A Biography of Orson Welles. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1989 pages 334 and 351
