GERMAN SCHOOLS IN ARGENTINA

Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 290, 5 September 1942, Page 4

GERMAN SCHOOLS IN ARGENTINA

Directed From Berlin

NEW YORK, September 2

An Argentine Congressional committee investigating subversive influences lias reported that German schools in Argentina are operating under the direction of the Nazi Government. The schools are under the control of diplomatic representatives from Berlin accredited to the Argentine Government. The supervising and teaching iwrsonnel are selected in Germany, and tho textbooks edited in Germany. The committee declared that, the character of the teaching is contrary to Argentine laws. It recoinmended that attention should also be given to Italian schools.

The Government of Brazil lias taken over 29 companies, including three steamship lines, an aeroplane factory, coal mines, Brazil’s biggest shipyards, aitd gas and electric power plants, all of which were previously owned b.v Hie late Senlior Enrique Lage, who bequeathed the whole to bis widow, a former- Italian singer, whose request for Brazilian citizenship was recently rejected. The Government said that in view of the state of war the Lage organizations were of great value to the national defence. It is announced in Washington that a special United States technical mission is leaving soon for Brazil at the request of the Brazilian Government, The leader "will be Mr. Morris L. Cook, former head of the Rural Electrification Administration. The mission is to increase production, to convert Brazilian industries to the use of substitutes for raw material, and to improve transport.