NAZI PLOTTING

Wairarapa Times-Age, 25 June 1940, Page 5

NAZI PLOTTING

THE EXPOSURE IN URUGUAY DANGERS TO AMERICAN CONTINENTS. EMPHASISED IN BRITAIN. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, June 23. Public opinion here has followed with interest and sympathy the news of the recently unmasked Nazi intrigues in Uruguay, with ramifications in neighbouring South American States and implications for the whole American continent. Comment in the Press has shown admiration for the vigorous action taken by the authorities and the .Uruguayan Chamber of Deputies, which met in secret session to hear the official report on the plot. Reports of public indignation in Montevideo are well understood here. There is little surprise that the Ger.man legation has been, as the “Daily Telegraph” said a few days ago. “abusing its diplomatic privilege to fill the subversive role which is now the principal business of German legations everywhere,” and it is noted with satisfaction that the German Minister's attempted denial was ,immediately exposed by irrefutable proof in documents published by “El Dia. ’ “The Spectator,” reviewing these events, says: “That such, activities, with which neutral European countries have long been familiar, have been pursued with equal zeal and energy in South America makes it evident that there are no limits to Nazi ambitions. Hitler thinks not in terms of a single continent, but of the whole world. America's danger is beginningwhile Europe's is at the height of its crisis.” The “Daily Telegraph” also sees the Nazi plot in Uruguay as designed to fit into a broad strategic scheme by which Hitler, too optimistically counting on early success in shattering the last resistances in Europe by subduing Britain, is already calculating the moment when he will be ready for an onslaught on the Western Hemisphere. To this end he must prepare his advance port on American soil. Most commentators relate these revelations of secret Nazi machinations in Uruguay to Hitler's recent interview with an American journalist, in which he said he believed in “America for the Americans” —“Hitler's Monroe Doctrine,” as the journal “Economist” calls it sarcastically, adding, “The extent and ingenuity of the Nazi intrigues in Uruguay, where fully organised shock troops have been discovered, is an apt illustration of Hitler's pledge. ’

BREAK WITH GERMANY PROPOSED BY URUGUAYAN DEPUTY. MONTEVIDEO. June 23. Senor Ricardo Techera, a member of the Chamber of Deputies and representing the powerful Colorado Party, told the United Press that he will propose the suspension of diplomatic relations with Germany, and also drastic measures against arrested Germans.