SPANISH AGENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 18, 16 October 1942, Page 5

SPANISH AGENTS IN SOUTH AMERICA

Correspondent’s Charges (Received October 15, 7 p.m.) NEW YORK, October 14. “Spain is offering promises of continued neutrality and increasing cooperation with the United States while simultaneously trusting in the Axis to knife deeper and deeper into the back of South America,” says , the Montevideo correspondent of “P.M.” (New York). “Generalissimo Franco is merely a puppet acting ou Hitler’s orders. Spanish agents are carrying out Nazi instructions in South America. No Latin American country has yet broken diplomatic relations with Spain, which leaves Franco’s representatives under a cloak of diplomatic immunity, free to assist the Axis. Some of the United States’ good neighbours, particularly Uruguay, Cuba, and Mexico, are becoming fed up with Spanish actions but hesitate to move in the face of the Anglo-American tendency to string along with Franco. Many Latin Americans underrate the Spanish influence and effort, which is just what Goebbels wants. Spanish ships are arriving regularly, untroubled by the submarines, and bringing more aud more diplomatic aides and Fifth Columnists and plenty of propaganda ” The Washington correspondent of the “Christian Science Monitor” says that immediate action by the Chilean Government to uproot espionage, which tins already cost the'United Nations many ships ami men, is expected in informed quarters. Simultaneously it is stated authoritatively that the situation concerning Nazi activity is becoming worse in Argentina. There is positive and unimpeachable evidence that the Argentine Government recently took drastic steps to protect Nazis from countcr-actiou by private citizens. This openly undemocratic gesture is considered here to.give the Germans a greater measure of support than they have evei> enjoyed in Argentina. Information shows that Mr. Sumner Welles had abundant justification when he made the charge that the United Nations were being stabbed in the back by Axis emissaries in Argentina and Chile.