Evening star., 1938-12-08
(Second OF q SerieS.)
BY MORGAN M. BEATTY.

Associated Press Feature Service Writer.
The European totalitarian theor-
lists are seizing upon Latin America
as a special field of expansion.
Especially since the coming Of
Hitler, in 1888, German doctrine
and commercial infiltration have
been developing at top speed in the
Latin American states.
AS a result, few nations this side
of the Atlantic have been entirely
free of shirt" organizations cut to
the measure of Adolf Hitler's Nazi
system. Almost everywhere that
such organizations have merged
violence has flared.
This explains in part the in
creased interest of the United States
in South America. Yet it may sur
prise the layman how much prog
ress the United States has made
since the war toward developing its
own trade and cultural relations
with South America.
Instances of Violence.
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Dictator Getulio Var
gas of Brazil escaped assassination
last March 1s after suppressing the
Nazi zi-inspired Green Shirts who
numbered more than $4,000 men. A
raid on a Green Shirter's home dis
closed 5000 swastika-decorated dag
gers and a radio transmitter.
Nearly 100 persons were killed last
September 5 in Santiago, Chile,
when the brown n-shirted Nazistas OF
that country undertook a badly
timed revolt. They were crushed.
President Lazaro Cardenas OF
Mexico has banned Mexico's Gold
Shirts and exiled their leader, Mic
olas Rondriguez.
In our own United States, the
Gray Shirts, presumably a part OF
the German American Bund, have
been the center of riots in San
Francisco, New York, Chicago, Syra-
cuse and several New Jersey cities.
German commerce, meanwhile,
has quickened by leaps and bounds
In the Western Hemisphere. espe-
cially in South America-evidently
a Nazi effort to re-establish Ger
manys pre-war trade. BY 1895, the
Germans had climbed to the No. 2
commercial position in Latin Amer
lea, displacing the British empire.
Undermining U. S. Difficult.
But Hitler agents are having the
devils own time undermining Uncle
Sam in Latin America. The war
shut OF European competition, and
as a result we doubled our trade
with Latin American nations, and
received more and more bf their
students in our universities.
The ubiquitous Yankee is now do
ing about "a per cent of all the Latin
American business-more than Great
Britain, Germany, France, Italy, and
Japan combined. (They are run
ming in that order)
But the German attempt to build
lasting commercial and cultural ties
in South America and Central
America has developed no end of
confusion.
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tions point their antennae toward
Latin America and blast away daily
with a stream of Nazi propaganda
in the guise of news Some Latin
American papers pick it up. because
It's free. and thus spread the terms
and systems used by totalitarian
states.
Reich Relations Strained.
That has encouraged counter pro-
paganda organizations in Latin
America and the United States. Bra
zil's banning of Nazi and other cul-
tural societies has strained its rela-
tions with Germany. Columbia's s
recent withdrawal of her minister
designate from Berlin was based on
supposed insults by the German po-
lice
The German retort to increased
interest in a PAM American family
of nations has been a charge that
Uncle Sam is duping his neighbors,
and wants to use them for his own
selfish ends.
Beneath this barrage of propa-