INVASION OF AMERICA
EARLIER GERMAN PLANS
NO SUPPORT FROM MEXICO MEXICO CITY, (Rec. 10 p.m.) July 13. Colonel Armando Lozano Bernal, 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 its support. The plans were completed during the invasion of Poland two years before the United States entered the war. Colonel Bernal said the Gennan plan was discussed with him, and the Germans envisaged taking over a Mexican Gulf coast port in the oil region and using it as a base against the United States. Colonel Bernal said that his unsympathetic answers to these 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 German strength was being sapped in spite of the military gains, and the war was bound to end in a victory for the United Nations.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 24968, 15 July 1942, Page 3
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