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When Sumner Welles thrust a cool, straight blade at Argentina and Chile last fortnight for tolerating Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19), he must have expected resentful parrying by the Governments of those countries...
Argentina and Chile made immediate, angry protests to Washington. But in rebellious Argentina, when the Chamber of Deputies last fortnight voted a resolution demanding a break with the Axis (TIME, Oct. 12), Nicolas Repetto, Socialist Party leader, rapped out that the Government's "benevolent tolerance" toward the Nazis in their midst "gives irrefutable basis to the accusations...
There were other bases for the accusations. Recently the Cuban Government arrested an Axis agent who confessed that he had been in direct radio contact with submarines operating in the Caribbean and Middle Atlantic. He also admitted contact with agents in Chile...
...Chile President Rios, who was packing his bags for a State visit to the U.S., announced that he had postponed his trip. But it was not likely that the State Department or the White House would try to diffuse Mr. Welles's pointed remarks. A shadowy situation needed clearing up. Mr. Welles had thrown a bright light...
...Paulo, bus schedules have been slashed, many vital rail services are cut by half, other routes suspended. Even wood-burning steamers plowing the muddy Amazon River to Manaos are stopped: the woodcutters have slipped into the jungles to gather rubber for better pay. In Andean-wrinkled Chile and Peru where railroads are few, highway routes are all-important, few trucks have gasoline to run and even they are being laid up as tires wear...