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...South America became very quisling-conscious. Uruguay set up a "Dies" committee to ferret out wide-flung Nazi activities. Argentine police seized secret Nazi radio stations and broke up street demonstrations while Government officials warned Argentines that Hitler rule would destroy the civilization of centuries. Newspapers in Bolivia and Chile clamored for suppression of blatant Nazi activities. Colombia became jittery over the possibility of sabotage to her oil lines. Latin Americans suddenly realized what Germans have long known, namely that nowhere else in the world is the ground more fertile for sprouting fifth columns, and nowhere has Nazi infiltration been...
...Chile's Nads deny German relationship but until the 1938 abortive coup wore brown uniforms, saluted with upraised hand, drilled, obeyed German-Chilean leaders. Fifth columnists are made early in Chile, where German schools are numerous and cheaper than native ones, and teachers are recruited from Germany...
...taking an observation in Chile and by using facts that we already know of weather conditions in China, for instance, or in Boston, we can predict the weather in those places for two weeks in advance...
Most extraordinary thing about Conchita is the fact that she is an American. Born in Chile and reared in Peru, she is the daughter of a onetime U. S. Army officer named Francisco Cintron (a Puerto Rican) and granddaughter (on her mother's side) of U. S. Archeologist A. Hyatt Verrill, descendant of a long line of highbrow, blue-blooded New Englanders...
From Puerto Rico to Chile, from Ecuador to Hawaii, to the Gunther boys in Buenos Aires, to Claude Hannibal out at sea the word went: "Foxy Grampa says Roy Bernard's gonna be O.K. . . . Fine . . . fine...