U.S. BLUE BOOK

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXXIII, Issue 21946, 14 February 1946, Page 8

U.S. BLUE BOOK

“AIDING THE AXIS"

ARGENTINA INDICTED

"MOCKERY OF PLEDGES" (9 a.m.) WASHINGTON, Feb. 13. The United States State Department has published a 40,000-word Blue Book denouncing successive Argentine Governments for aiding the Axis. The Blue Book stated that the evidence justified the following conclusions:

(1) Individuals and groups controlling the Argentine Government aim to establish a totalitarian State, and this has already been partly accomplished. (2) By brutal force and terrorist methods the military regime has made a mockery of its pledge to the United Nations to reaffirm its faith in human rights. (3) Ever since the Allies invaded Europe Argentina has been adopting a defensive strategy of camouflage, with repeated avowals of pro-demo-cratic intentions. (4) The recent regime in Argentina has sought to undermine the inter-American system.

The Blue Book noted that more than half Argentina’s Budget last year was assigned for building up the armed forces. Moreover, the Germans in Argentina have new constructed a complete duplicate of the economic structure for war which they had in Germany. The Germans in Argentina possess the industrial, commercial and agricultural organisation needed for the constitution of German aggressive power during the period their homeland is occupied. The Germans also control the Argentine industries essential to warfare, in which experiments for future weapons may be conducted and prototypes developed.

The Blue Book, which is largely based on captured Nazi documents, constitutes the United States explanation of its refusal to participate in the proposed hemisphere defence treaty, which would include Argentina.