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...others were doomed by code messages on high-powered radio sets and interchange of information through Spanish ships. Subsequent developments were expected to give chapter & verse on a continental espionage system of Nazis, Fascists and Japanese operating in Buenos Aires with all the trigger men expelled from Brazil and Chile...
...accused by Sumner Welles of harboring Axis spies. The public at that time demanded the ousting of Nazi Ambassador Baron Edmund von Thermann. What might happen this time, if events followed a similar course, was anybody's guess. But it was clear that, as they already had in Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), the words of Sumner Welles were bearing overripe fruit in Argentina...
Word has leaked out of grandiose U.S. Government plans to ship idle plants to under-factoried Latin American countries. Already shipped (to Brazil, Chile, Venezuela, Mexico): six small textile mills, a blast furnace, a storage battery factory. Some Government enthusiasts were talking rosily of finding as many as 500 plants that U.S. owners would be glad to sell to eager Latin American buyers (no effort is being made to take plants that are not willingly sold), but lack of shipping is apt to limit that sharply. Nonetheless, where a U.S. plant can provide an essential commodity that would otherwise have...
...congratulatory message to President Roosevelt was drafted by the Emergency Advisory Committee for Political Defense of the Hemisphere (set up by the Rio conference in January). But it went unsigned by representatives of the two countries which have not yet broken diplomatically with the Axis. Chile's delegate was absent. Argentina's abstained from voting. However, Chile's President Juan Antonio Ríos sent a personal message to Franklin Roosevelt, promising increased production of vital materials and control of Nazi propaganda and espionage, praising the African operations as "guaranteeing the security of this hemisphere...
Belatedly Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, now engaged in a Nazi espionage cleanup based on U.S. State Department memoranda similar to that recently sent Chile (TIME, Nov. 16), cabled Secretary of State Cordell Hull. The Argentine people, said he, watched "with solidarity and interest the efforts made by the great and friendly nation in safeguarding the security of the Americas...