WAR POLICY

Wairarapa Times-Age, 8 September 1941, Page 5

WAR POLICY

OF SOUTH AMERICAN NATIONS WILL FOLLOW UNITED STATES. STATEMENT BY BRAZILIAN AMBASSADOR. (Bv Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW YORK, September 6. A message from Toronto states that Senor Alberto Debarros, Brazilian Ambassador to Canada, told the Press that if the United States should enter the war against Germany all the South American countries would follow suit. He added that the South American States looked to Washington for leadership, while Germany increasingly feared South America since the recent anti-Nazi steps there. A message from Managua, Nicaragua, states that President Somoza has ordered the closure of all German consulates by September 15. The New York “Herald-Tribune” says that the profit sharing patent pooling agreements for dividing world markets in drugs which exist between Igfarbenindustries, the German Dye Trust, and such American firms as Sterling Products and the Bayer Company, have been declared illegal in court actions. The chief result of the decision will be to free the American companies from unwanted contracts with the German trust.

The Central Bank of Poland has obtained a writ of attachment against 64,000,000 dollars of the vast store of French gold in the United States, reports the “New York Times." The bank claims that its gold reserves, which were transported to France for shipment to the United States before the fall of Warsaw, were later surrendered to the Nazis.