The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-04-05
Peaceful GermansM May Overthrow Nazi Ruler
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further armaments that lead to war, would be in any way regarded as an oct hostile to themselves. The Ger man people would, of course, ex- pect that necessary precautions be taken to guarantee the life of the nation, once the present nightmare ts over."
 Naxi Plot Is Nipped
 Buenos Aires, April 5-(UP)-The government today pressed a wide spread investigation involving many police raids and arrests into pur- ported Nazi plot to seize Patagonia.
 Severe strain on Argentine rela- tions with Germany was forecast in political sources if the plot-which pro-Nazi newspapers denounced as cooked up by the United States-is confirmed by the investigation.
 Alfredo Muller, reputed Nazi lead- CT in Argentina, was arrested and questioned by Dr. Cache Piran, secretary to Federal Judge Miguel Jantus, who is in charge of the in- quiry. Piran also questioned several other persons held by police.
 Goebbels Old Secretary Arrested
 Enrique Jurges, reported to have been Q former secretary to Dr. Jo- seph Goebbels, the Nazi propaganda minister, was again arrested. Jur- ges disclosed the purported Nazi documents regarding Patagonia, re- portedly in revenge for the deaths of relatives at the hands of Nazi se- cret police.
 Police gave no explanation for taking him into custody although previously he had been held for his own protection.
 Raids in the last "A hours includ- cd many German centers in the city and suburbs, including the Argen- tine Nazi headquarters on the fourth floor of the Bank of Germany Go. building. Other places searched were the German Social and Cultural club in the suburb of Villa De Voto; the German society headquarters in suburban Belgrano, which is Ger man residential area; and the apart ment where Muller lived in build- ing owned by Ricardo Staudt.
 Center of Activities
 Staudt, whose building in the heart of the city had been described as 8 center of German activities, presented to Argentina the building in Berlin in which the Argentine embassy is located.
 Police seized many documents and much literature in their raids. The said Mullers signature on a fac simile of the Patagonia documents had been verified by experts.
 The fac-simile was printed last week in the newspaper Noticias Graficas. The original copy was said to have been sent to the German foreign ministry along with detailed information on Patagonia's defenses industry, finance, commerce and resources.
 T.e information was supposed to have been compiled by various Ger man organizations in Argentina. The summary, saving that the Argentine : government had abandoned" the people of Patagonia, in the south ern part of the country, that it was "nonodys land and we can annex it," was the document on which Mtlller's signature was identified.
 German Embassy DenOunces It
 The newspaper story inspired a government investigation of Nazi &C., tivities. The German embassy de- noumced the document as false and Muller said his signature had been forged. He had been kept under surveillance when handwriting ex- perts reported early today he was arrested. -.t
 The newspaper Fl Mundo said to- day that police had found impor- tant documents in the raids on Nazi quarters. One document was said to have contained plan for fostering the influence of "a certain foreign country" here at the expense of the interests of other nations. Other documents, the newspaper said proved unquestionably that Nazi ex- pansion plans had been sent abroad several months ago at the time of a press campaign denouncing Ger man schools for teaching Nazi philo- Sophy.