CALLED PRO-NAZI

Wairarapa Times-Age, 11 June 1943, Page 3

CALLED PRO-NAZI

RAMIREZ GOVERNMENT IN ARGENTINA OTHER REPUBLICS EXTENDING RECOGNITION. IN HOPE OF AVOIDING EMBARRASSMENT. . ißy Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright) NEW.YORK, June 9. The New York ‘•Herald-Tribune’s’’ correspondent in Santiago (Chile) says that private advices received from Buenos Aires describe the new Argentine regime as a Nationalist proFascist movement which is backed by a group of Nazi-minded generals and admirals and is designed primarily-to prevent a break with the Axis. The correspondent says that the new President, General Ramirez, had long been known as one of the most pro-Nazi officers in the Argentine- Army, taking great pride in his three years of service with Kaiser Wilhelm’s Fifth Hussars. Brazil has officially recognised the new Argentine Government, says a dispatch from Montevideo. The Rio de Janeiro correspondent of the Associated Press of America, says that the American Republics arc hastening recognition in order to avoid a possible embarrassing situation if the Axis first recognised President Ramirez, thus attempting to place him under an obligation. Later messages says that Paraguay, Bolivia and Chile have also notified their recognition of the new Government.

The Buenos Aires correspondent of the "New York Times” says that ma-chine-guns and other weapons have been removed from the windows and roof of Government House and the troops have returned to their barracks. These measures have given Argentinians a comforting feeling that normality is returning. No further sensational surprises can be expected for the present.