The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-02-11

AN@NA6&4 oVSA2G0VC 4l4 ,yCQl D Queen of Great Britain.
 Aranha served for four years as Brazilian ambassador in Wash ington and was one of the most popular envoys since the days of Jusserand of France. But that Is not why his visit is signifi- cant.
 Nor are conversations regarding trade, foreign exchange, or credits the reason for his visit. These will be discussed; but the real reason goes far deeper.
 It goes back to the State Department awakening to the alarming extent to which Nazi- Fascist influence has pentrated in South America. It also gets down to the fact that the United States, despite the Good Neigh bor" policy is not at all popu- lar south of the Rio Grande.
 Complacent Cordell Hull hadn't realized these things until he went to the Lima Conference in December. There he had his eyes opened. Also he had his eyes opened to the fact that Os- waldo Aranha was the one out standing friend of the United States in the Southern Hemi- sphere.
 This country has other Latin American friends, 1t is true, but few who will stand up and fight against any odds for friendship with the United States.
 GERMAN PLOT
 Greatest fight Aranha has made is to keep Nazi influence out of Brazil. And with his re- turn to the LISA, a State Depart ment secret can be revealed, namely that Aranha had a lot to do with the recall of the German ambassador from Washington. Tn fact, Aranha played larger part in this than almost anyone else.
 Background of this revelation goes back to last summer when the Integralistas, or Brazilian Nazls, staged Q revolt. After wards it was discovered that funds for the revolt had come from the Deutsches Amerikani- sches Bank in Rio de Janiro. It had advanced S500,000 for the overthrow of the Brazilian government.
 Immediately, the German di- rector of the bank and his two assistants were jailed. This brought a protest from the Ger man ambassador, Karl Ritetr, who demanded of Foreign Minister Aranha that he release the men at once. Aranha reminded Rit- ter that 1t was Brazilian law which ruled Brazil, not Nazi.
 Ritter became so abusive that Aranha almost lost his diplo- matic poise and threw him out.
 Later when Ritter returned to Germany for the Maxi Party reunion at Nuremburg, Aranha instructed the Brazilian ambas- dor in Berlin, Jose Munix de Aragao. to inform the German Foreign office that Ritter was not to return. However, Aragao was too timid in his statement, or else the Foreign Office delib- erately misunderstood him. At any rate, Ritter left Hamburg for Rio.
 Learning this, Aranha peremp- torily informed the German foreign office that Ritter would not be received in Rio. So his ship was stopped off the coast of Portugal and Herr Ritter put ashore at Lisbon. Simultaneously Aranha recalled his own ambas- sador from Berlin.
 WASHINGTON
 HEADQUARTERS
 Behind this drastic action was further discovery by the Brazilian government of Nazi revolutionary attempts in the southern prov- inces of Santa Catharina and Rio Grapde do sul. These Aranha traced directly to the German embassy in Washington. All the evidence pointed to Am- bassador Hans Dieckhoff as the arch-plotter of revolt in Brazil.
 Aranha communicated all his evidence Co the State Depart ment, and it arrived just as the Nazls began their last persecution of the s~ws. S0