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FIFTH COLUMN PROBLEM

There are more than 8011,000 Germans in Brazil, according to John Gunthers “Inside Latin America.' published since the war started. There were recently Id newspapers printed iu German te_xt, also nine printed in Japanese for h_ very considerable Japanese colony. ar more than elsewhere in South Am - ’ the German population lias been or„a, ized on the familiar Nazi lines. Of course (said Gunther) the Brazilian Government and its shrewd head. !> • Vargas, knew all aboul the German inf - (ration, about German tilth column's u. and the German plans for sttpplj in- he. U-boats, but Vargas considered that they could always be managed in a crisis. BeK i?los Vargas wished to stay neutral as long as possible, for who was to sav that Germany. Italy and Japan would not come through triuniphnte Despite the war. the Knropean-br.izilm air service across the South Atlantic h id been allowed to ply backward ami forward between Dakar and Natal (LrnzjD. Gunther explained that this though German in control for the most part had been unattached just as had been the Great Britain-Lisbon air service, under an international agreement.■ Brazilian bulge is the nearest Ameiu.m point to Africa’, and the air service wits largely availed of also by the people ol the Argentine Republic Du-ator was described by (.qnllier as n st"'nnian with an immense hold on the peopl anil the Army.

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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5

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FIFTH COLUMN PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5

FIFTH COLUMN PROBLEM Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 280, 25 August 1942, Page 5

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