GERMAN INTRIGUE

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 20836, 15 July 1942, Page 3

GERMAN INTRIGUE

PLOT TO ATTACK U.S. USE OF MEXICO AS BASE DIPLOMAT’S DISCLOSURE (10.30 a.m.) MEXICO CITY, July 14. Colonel, Armando Lozano Bernal, the former Mexican military attache at Berlin, who has just returned, in an interview, said that Germany planned to attack the United States, and had offered Mexico territorial compensations for support. The plans were completed during the invasion of Poland two years before the United States entered the war, Colonel Bernal said. The German plan was discussed with him and the Germans envisioned taking over a Mexican Gulf coast port in V the oil region and. using it as a base against the United States. Colonel Bernal said that his unsympathetic answers ’ to the inquiries caused the Germans to cut short their efforts to win him over. The Mexican Government was fully advised of the German overtures. Colonel Bernal remained in Germany until last. May. He expressed the opinion that the German strength was being sapped despite the military gains and the war was bound to end in victory for the United Nations.