JOURNALIST IN PANAMA

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23880, 3 February 1941, Page 9

JOURNALIST IN PANAMA

WARNED BY PRESIDENT AN ITALIAN'S COMPLAINT [from our own correspondent] NEW YORK, Jan. 23 The managing-editor of the Panama American, Mr. Edward Scott, who is a New Zealand")-, lias been warned by the new President of Panama, Scnor Arnulfo Arias, that his future conduct must bo more "neutral." The Panama American is owned by a former President. brother of the President incumbent. and his political enemy. Mr. Scott furnished the manager of a local beer garden with a news bulletin. which was read over the loudspeaker system, announcing a British victory over the Italian Navy. The Italian Minister was in the beer garden and complained to the Government. The President is a graduate of Harvard. His brother, the former President. Harmodio Arias, is a graduate of Cambridge. In his newspaper Mr. Scott has been carrying on an active campaign against one Professor Karl Brunner, who recently arrived from Bogota. Colombia, and was appointed by Arnulfo Arias as director of town planning. Brunner is described as an expert in aerial photography. Recently he was publicly denounced in Washington as a Nazi agent by Senator Dies, chairman of the committee on Un-American Activities. A cablegram from Balboa on January 2S stated that Mr. Scott had escaped 'to American soil after arrest by the Panamanian secret police, and that later lie was handed over to the Panama authorities. On January 30 it was announced that Mr. Scott, who was to have been deported on the ground that be accused the President of the Panama Republic of sympathies with the totalitarian Powers, had been granted permission to leave for the United States.