NAZIS AND S. AMERICA

Greymouth Evening Star, 21 January 1944, Page 5

NAZIS AND S. AMERICA

HITLER PREPARES REFUGE

ARGENTINA’S ASSISTANCE

NEW YORK, January 19. The “New York World Telegram,” in a front page story, stated: From behind a wall of censorship, which for months beclouded developments in Argentina, comes a warning that Hitler has prepared future Argentina as a haven for himself. It is learned that the U.S. State Department received advice from sources, inside Argentina giving this infornintion, and. in adctiMon assertions that Nazis engineered a coup last June which placed President Ramirez’s Government in power, mid that they are lining up semi-dic-tatorial States in South America against the United States, all of which forms the basis of a lengthy report, which states that, by winning the battle of Argentina first, Nazis have attacked the Western Hemisphere on the ideological front at the weakest |J °The report concludes with a plea to the United States to take immediate steps, firstly, of an economic nature, and military if necessary to encompass an early downfall ol Argentina s dictator, General .Ramirez The re- . port-'painstakingly delineates a long list of pvo-Nazi acts and statements 6v high Argentine officials, ail oi which leave no room for doubt that the Germans acted in South America as effectively as in certain European countries by fifth column tactics. The report declares Argentina has become a haven for Axis capital, and that Nazi leaders are known to have sizeable fortunes tucked av. as Hull, Secretary of State, told a Press Conference that this and other, reports of pro-Axis activities in the Western Hemisphere will be dean with when the question 01. recognition of the Bolivian Government is de cided. Until then Mr. Huff dechnes to discuss.the report. Mi. Hull maae it clear he considers the Argenuna situation deeply involves that of Bolivia.

LARGE- SCALE CONSPIRACY

(Rec. 11.15 a.m.) MONTE VIDEO, January 20. Information exchanged among eighteen South American revealed that Bolivian revolutionary leaders conferred be lore the coup, with, the Argentine Nationalists m the Buenos Aires home of the Gelman Ambassador, Count Karl von Luxburg, according to authoritativc sources. The leader ot the Bolivia.! coup d’etat, Estenssoro, is reported to have received several million pesos at* that meeting. , 2 . The Associated Press says ; rumoured that the Argentinian Government countenanced the Nc/.r sponsored plan to create a southmu military bloc, including Bolivia. Chile, Uruguay and Southern Brazil. It was recently learned that a number of putsch-like revolutions me being prepared in South America, coinciding with the European invasion.