JUST AN AXIS PUPPET

Marlborough Express, Volume LXXVI, Issue 244, 16 October 1942, Page 5

JUST AN AXIS PUPPET

SPAIN'S ROLE REVEALED. UNITED NATIONS STABBED IN BACK.

P.A. Cable.

NEW YORK, Oct, 14.

Spain is offering promises of continued neutrality and increasing cooperation with the United States, while simultancously thrusting the pro-Axis knife deeper and deeper into the back of South America., says the! Montevideoi correspondent of the newspaper P.M. Franco, he writes, is merely a puppet acting on Hitler's orders. Spanish agentsi are carrying out Nazi instructions in South America. No Latin- American country has yet broken diplomatic relations with Spain, leaving Franeo's representatives under the 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 British and American tendency to "string along" with Franco. Many LatinAmericans under-rate the Spanish influence and effort, which is just what Goebbels wants. Spanish ships are arriving regularly, untroubled by submarines, bringing more and more diplomatic aides, fifth columnists, and plenty of propaganda. The Christian Science' Monitor's Washington correspondent- says- that immediate action by the' Chilean Government to up-root espionage, which has already lost the United Natlions many ships and men..- is expected in informed quarters here. It is simultaneously stated authoritatively that the situation regarding Nazi activity is beeoming worse in Argentina. There is positive and unimpeacha,ble evidenca that the Argentine Government recently took drastic steps to protect Nazis from counter-actio-n by private citizens. This openly undemocratic gesture is considered here as giving the Germans a greater measure of support than they have ever enjoyed in Argentina. Information shows that the UnderSecretary for State, Mr Sumner Weiles, had abundant jus-tificati.on when he made a charge in, his Boston speecli on September 9 that the United Nations were being stabbed in the back by Axis emissaries in Argentina and Chile.