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==History==
[[File:OCIAA-Nelson-Rockefeller.jpg|thumb|left|[[Nelson Rockefeller]], head of the [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]] and a principal stockholder in RKO Pictures (1940)]]
Orson Welles produced ''Hello Americans'' under the auspices of the [[Office of the Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs]], created by President [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]] in July 1941 "to provide for the development of commercial and cultural relations between the American Republics and thereby increasing the solidarity of this hemisphere and furthering the spirit of cooperation between the Americas in the interest of hemisphere defense."<ref>Roosevelt, Franklin D., [http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=16152#axzz1kZmKEFYg "Executive Order 8840 Establishing the Office of Coordinator of Inter-American Affairs"], July 30, 1941. Online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American Presidency Project, [[University of California, Santa Barbara]]</ref>