COMMUNISM IN LATIN AMERICA
“GREATER DANGER THAN NAZIS ”
(Rec. 8 p.m.) WASHINGTON, June 9. Mr Spruille Braden, the former Assistant Secretary of State for Latin America, told the House Appropriations Committee that the Communists in Latin America were a'greater peril than the Nazi fifth columnists had ever been.
Mr Braden said that Communist agents had begun building up their organisations in Latin America years ago, and in recent years had come out openly. Mr Braden expressed the opinion that the Communists were a greater peril than the German Nazis because the latter were foreigners. “The Germans did not get into national life in the samd way as the Communists penetrate a country through its own nationals,” he added. “Furthermore, the Communists get at the labour classes, which the Nazis were never able to do.” Mr Braden estimated that there were 300,000 Communists in South America.
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Press, Volume LXXXIII, Issue 25207, 11 June 1947, Page 9
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