The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-11-08

livered by the government of the Ar
gentine at the United Nations 8.
Because
I'd The present Argentine gov
eminent knows that one of the Graf
Spec officers whose escape was
permitted - broadcast over the
German radio on June 20, 1912, a
description of his sinking of a
BRAZILIAN SHIP The name
of that Brazilian ship-the Par
anahyba The officer-Captain
Jurgen Wattenberg of the Nazi
Navy.
(2) Another former Graf Spec
officer was taken prisoner by the
Allies when German submarine
was sunk.
go Allied intelligence knows -
and Buenos Aires knows - that sew
eral others are in command of
German submarines.
90 Allied intelligence knows
and Buenos Aires knows - that sew
eral others are in command of
German submarines.
The Argentine government also
knows that the German naval at
tache in 1912, Dietrich Niebuhr
(since returned to Germany, put up
the escape system, selected the most
valuable men and threatened them
with reprisals if they refuse to break
their word of honor not to escape
Reprisals not only against
them but against their families in
Germany He also assumed the
right of secret court-martial of Ger
man war prisoners on Argentine
soil.
So much for the facts. They are
absolutely correct.
Now this is the immediate history
This is the SECOND time that
the Ramirez government has brok-
en- its word of honor The Ar
gentinians are a very proud peo-
pie. In New York they have been
most welcome visitors, because their
pride is equalled by their self-re-
Spect 1t must be CALLING to the
civilized Argentines to have as presi-
dent a man who is liar and can
be proven a liar by documents
But much more important IS the
question of whether or not those
same documents prove him to be a
war criminal ). Secretary Hull, in
September, pointed out in his
strongest note to Buenos Aires that
the resolutions of the Rio de jan
| GIRO conference had been ignored by
Argentina, ALTHOUGH she had
SIGNED THE AGREEMENT
Now, adding injury to insult, Ra-
mirez has permitted German sea-
men the freedom of the port. He
knows what that means on the At
| lantic-and we should Sc ct hat il
means something more in Buenos
| Aires.
This is my opinion: I believe oul
country should be q friend to it,
friends and an enemy to it.
enemies I believe that if We
continue a good neighbor policy witt
the Argentine we are worse than the
worlds biggest suckers We art
disloyal to the millions of Ameri
cans who are fighting Fascism il
the battle lines We canno
shake the hands of men who ART
helping to send our flag to the bot
tom of the sea while our fellow
Americans are dying to keep it fly
ing in the sky The American
Republic has more than right
it has the absolute duty to pro
tect the lives of the men fighting
under the American Flag.
What can Ambassador Armour bt
saying to President Ramirez one
half so eloquent as the Argentine
permitting high sea assassins to slir
out under the American ambassa-
doris nose? What can the
American ambassador offer II
friendship to man who is an &C.
cessory to an act which may coS
the lives of American sailors and the
loss of critical supplies to the Amer
lean Army?
The German agents in the Argen'
tine capital are attacking the Amer
lean fleet as certainly as the Stukf
bombers which killed the gun crew
of the Savannah at Salerno =.
These German spy headquarter
are as much a part of the German
military machine as the Romme
rear guard which Is machine-gun
ming Americans on the road t.
Rome And President Ramire'
knows 1t.
We know that war is dirty bust
ness - full of dirty jobs :. Tint
boys who fought at Guadalcana
can tell you that But the dir
tiest job in this war - in my
opinion - belongs to Ambassador
Armour. 1t is his duty to shake
the hands of the men who are try
1oeq eul VI GI4unoo STU qu4s OF gu
I believe that Ambassador Ar
mour should not be asked to do 1t
The next message to the Ar
gentine should be delivered by tn
United States Air Force . In an.
event - unless Washington sends
stiff note to Buenos Aires - 1t i
going to be sending sad ones to SOM
mothers waiting on Main Street, U
s. A.