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Cartel. The character of the U. S. delegation made it plain that the U.S. viewed the biggest Nazi threat in South America as economic. No U.S. military or naval experts were going. With Secretary Hull went Adolf Berle, Assistant Secretary of State, creator of the cartel plan by which the U. S. would block Nazi pressures on South America...
...Nazi business goes, there goes Nazi politics. In South America, Nazi thought and Nazi organization already bubble above the political surface, in Uruguay, in Brazil, in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay, Bolivia. Prodded by its own businessmen, pressed by German traders and diplomatic experts, South America might well become an armed threat to the U. S., a base for launching an invasion of North America up the stepladder of the Caribbean islands with a drive to the flank to close the Panama Canal...
...make its way across the Atlantic. But in any degree of the hypothesis, next step for Germany and the U. S. would probably be the greatest naval race of all time. The U. S. Fleet would have to be brought into the Atlantic, for Japan does not present a threat of invasion from the West in any way comparable to Germany's threat from the East...
...anti-Administration candidate, Juan Andreu Almazán. As they slowly trudged past the offices of the Partido de la Revolutión Mexicana, which supported the Government's candidate Manuel Avila Camacho, marchers silently and sullenly raised their fists. General Avila Camacho was indifferent to their threat. He was, he declared, "completely satisfied with the low number of dead and wounded among the 20,000,000 population of Mexico. I am taking into consideration that in the U. S. thousands of persons are killed or wounded when a railroad train is derailed or wrecked...
Although Molotov was put in to symbolize Russia's new self-reliance, self-reliance did not mean isolation. Russia was still vulnerable, and the greatest, most imminent threat to her security was Germany. To the Kremlin, in the tense summer of 1939, it looked as if Great Britain and France were trying to sic Hitler on Russia. While Britain stalled and dragged out the treaty negotiations, meanwhile trying to appease Hitler over Poland, Russia also turned to Germany...