Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-09-25
Nozis in Uruguay

Uruguay has just taken action
which throws the searchlights full
glare upon Nazi activities VIGOROUSLY
rampant throughout Latin America.
Following an exhaustive inquiry by
Uruguay's Attorney General, orders
were issued for the arrest Of eight
Germans charged with promotion OF
a conspiracy to turn Uruguay into
"a German agricultural colony" The
Attorney General charged that this
plot was directed by Julio Dalldorf,
Press Attache of the German Lega-
ton. Legal action against this official
agent of Hitler is said to be imroS-
sible at this time because Of his dip
lomatic status. Evidently, the Ger
mans who are subject to prosecution
will be brought to trial. thus afford
ing Uruguay an opportunity to eX-
pose the Nazi program not only to
destroy democratic institutions In
that country, but to undermine them
throughout the Western Hemisphere.
The investigation which dragged
this subversive situation to light has
been in progress for many months.
It recalls the action of the United
States last June in dispatching
cruiser to Montevideo as evidence OF
our readiness to help an endangered
sister republic combat Nazi infll-
tration. Shortly before that, Uru-
quay made a sharp reply to protests
b. the German Minister against in
vesticatiOn and detention of certain
of his countrymen. Foreign Minister
GUAM did not mince words in eX-
pressing surprise and resentment
that a German holding official rank
was admittedly the head of IAN ultra
nationalistic racial group whose &C
tivities are not comparable to the
cultural, beneficial and religious Or
carnations of other foreign residents
of Uruguay
This finding rests upon twenty
nine point report specifying Nazi in
trigue in detail. 1t is one of the most
danning indictments of fifth-col-
umn Vaccinations in the Americas
yet brought to public notice. Among
it's categorical charges are % that
there exists in Uruguay section Of
the German National Socialist party,
united with the Reich through the
Montevideo Legation; GU that the
directors of the organization are
named directly from Germany; 90
that teachers in German schools in
Uruguay are selected in Germany by
a branch of the Nazi party devoted
to foreign activities; a. that Ger
man Nazis conduct an extensive per-
sonal newspaper and radio cam
paign and operate an office especially
designed to influence the Uruguayan
press, and 50 that there exists plan
of attack on Uruguay, prepared by
one of the Germans now under ar
rest, and that documentary evidence
shows the plan was accepted
Readers of The Stars recent pub
LEGATION Of excerpts from Doctor
Hermann Rauschning's revelations
of Hitlers scheme for Notification of
the Americas will find startling con-
f1rmation thereof in the facts
Uruguay now publishes to the world.
They lend strong support to the
theory that when Hitler considers
the time ripe for an attack on
"Yankeedom," it will be launched
somewhere south of the Rio Grande.
Uruguay's defiant action, taken
after known German pressure to
suppress it, should pull the scales
from the eyes of ostrichlike elements
in the United States, which cherish
the delusion that "it can't happen
here