SERVILE PART

Wairarapa Times-Age, 15 October 1942, Page 4

SERVILE PART

PLAYED BY SPAIN IN SOUTH AMERICA

FRANCO ACTING AS HITLER’S

PUPPET.

FIFTH COLUMN WORK UNDER DIPLOMATIC CLOAK.

(Received This Day, 1.25 p.m.) (Bv Telegraph—Press Association —Copyright) NEW YORK, October 14. Spain is offering premises of continued neutrality and increasing cooperation with the United States while simultaneously thrusting her pro-Axis knife deeper and deeper into the back of South America, says the Montevideo correspondent cf the newspaper “P.M.” Franco is merely a puppet acting on Hitler’s

orders. Spanish agents are carrying out Nazi instructions in South America. No Latin American country has yet broken diplomatic relations with Spain, leaving Franco's representatives, under the cloak of diplomatic immunity, free to assist the Axis. Some of the good neighbours of the United States, particularly Uruguay, Cuba and Mexico, are becoming fed up with Spanish actions, but hesitate to move in face of the British and 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 submarines, bringing more and more diplomatic aides and fifth columnists and plenty of propaganda.