FOUL MISUSE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 September 1941, Page 6

FOUL MISUSE

OF DIPLOMATIC PRIVILEGE BY GERMANS IN SOUTH AMERICA. SABOTAGE & SUBVERSION. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, September 9. Commenting on passages in President Vargas’s speech at the Brazilian independence anniversary celebrations on September 7 which related to the danger of the Nazi activities in South America, “The Times” says: “From Teheran to San Diego every German diplomatic post in neutral country has become an organised centre for efforts to undermine that country’s neutrality by espionage, sabotage and subversive propaganda conducted under protection of diplomatic immunity. “In Washington at the present time considerable anxiety seems to be felt over the activities of the German agents in the smaller Latin American republics in the neighbourhood of the Panama Canal, including the republic of Panama. “The Parliamentary Committee which for. some time has been investigating Nazi activities in the Argentine has found that the Nazi organisation which recently was dissolved still leads an active life. Light was thrown upon its methods by a circular from Herr Bchle, head of the Reich organisation for Germans living abroad, to all German diplomatic representatives instructing them that Germans not showing zeal for the diffusion of Nazi principles must be severely punished. “Conditions similar to those in the Argentine prevail in most of the South American countries.”