The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-01-12
Fascist Nations Work Day
 And Night on South America
Propaganda Styles Differ
 Aims Are Same
This is the third of . series of articles on South America
BY WILLIS THORNTON


 BY WILLIS THORNTON NEA Service Staff Correspondent
 The flag-bedecked city of Lima was an eye-opener for the United States delegates to the Eighth Pan- American Conference.
 A panorama of German swastika flags outnumbering the Stars and Stripes five or six to one along the main streets and Italian and Japa- nese emblems everywhere in evil dence supplied quick and impress sive lesson on the penetration of these countries into South America.
 But Italians were powerful in Peru in banking, utility, and trade circles when Mussolini was in pima flores. Many of the German shops and families date back to the Ger many that was, and some of the enterprises are even run by Ger man-JewS who are less than en- thusiastic about the Germany that is.
 In short, there is nothing sinis- ter in itself in the fact that in the past many German and Italian families have gone to South Amer ica to earn their living just as they came to the United States. TRANSPLANTING
 A PATTERN
 The sinister part comes when the home country tries, as it does now, to whip them into line for active work in favor of the current style of government at home. Germany is trying to enforce its anti-Jewish regulations on firms owned by Ger mans born in South America, and even on local firms with whom they deal.
 Latin Americans are naturally proud and independent, and this sort of direct interference is often deeply resented.
 In fact, Germany, more aggres- sive than Italy, and more crude than Japan in its methods of pene- tration, has definitely lost support in South America since Munich. In the spot in South American minds once occupied by fear of the "Co- lossus of the North" there sudden ly appeared the question twill there be Czechoslovakias in South Amer ica?"
 In many countries, Germany has definitely overplayed her hand. The result is that Brazil, Argentina and Chile have outlawed Nazi organiza- tions and schools, and practically every country has frightened up on | immigration. Colombia was irri- tated during the Jewish persecu- | tions by the fact that her minister to Berlin was mauled by police be- cause he took pictures of the depre- dationS.
 Other signs of impatience with Nazi heavy-handedness are to be seen. But the Germans, actuated by necessity, continue to try to make every German-blooded South American a salesman for German goods and German ideas.
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 Japanese penetration is charac- teristically more polite. Even the strain of the Chinese war has not prevented the Japanese from mo- nopolizing the textile markets of Peru, nor from entertaining with great cordiality Peruvian mission to promote culture and trade. The Japanese claim racial kinship with the ancient Incas, and besides, their stuff is cheap enough to leap over the tariff wall and still undersell even local textiles, let alone British and American.
 Of the three, the German effort is the most strenuous, the most des- perate, the most concentrated. But by the same token, it is the most likely to backfire.
 The Italian effort is grounded more securely in 100000 Italian settlers in Brazil, and from fourth to a third of the population of Italian blood in Argentina and Uruguay. Many of them are old settlers, well assimilated in the country of their adoption and hence far less noisy about the "old coun- try"
 The Japanese is trade and cul- tural penetration grounded in col onies like the cotton regions in Peru and Brazil. Explanations of
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