Browning chief. [volume] (Browning, Mont.) 1941-1953, 1944-09-22
Imperial Hopes May Linger
But Where Will Nazis Flee?
Spirit May Be Nurtured in Foreign Haven to
Break Forth Again; Few Countries
Willing to Offer Foe Refuge.
BY BAUKHAGE
NeUs analyst and Commentator.


own family to handle the sales -
there were other complicated regu-
lations the result of which was that
three or four families were benefit
ting by the single government L.
cenSe.
OF course it is not the quality Of
instability of Latin-American gov
ernments in itself which disrupts
our statesmen, but the fact that such
instability makes foreign influence
easier to achieve. We know what
foothold Germany had obtained in
South America, and maps have been
discovered showing the territory
Hitler expected to control which
placed all of South America up to
and into southern Brazil under Ger
man domination.
The power Of Argentinian in
fluence on the other South American
countries was strikingly revealed in
the recent move which caused the
resignation of Foreign Minister
Aranha of Brazil as protest
against his pro-United States policy.
Enemy Broadcasters
Without a Country
The time grows shorter until
Lord Hawhaw, Mr.. Kaltenbach, Mr..
Best, Miss Drexel, ct al, take their
places at the microphones of the
Berlin radio to spread their futile
propaganda over the ether for the
last time.
Here are three "reminiscences:
When I was broadcasting from
Berlin for the NBC at the beginning
of the war in 1899, there was only
one of the staff of the German
broadcasting station there who was
provocatively Nazi. He was a tall,
handsome blond, much given to rid
ing boots and golf clubs. He had
studied in England and his English
seemed perfect to me. He was an
announcer who read the news
beamed on England.
Then came the British declaration
of war against Germany. There was
naturally considerable excitement in
the studio. 1t was not until I was
going home that I missed my blond
friend. No one seemed to know
where he was.
Then I heard the story. 1t seemed
that when war was declared all
enemy aliens we're informed. The
Gestapo, much to the surprise of his
colleagues, picked up my blond
anglophobe, explaining they had
known all along that he was Brit
ish agent.
Later he was brought back and
forced to continue reading news bull
letins in English.
Number two in my gallery I never
saw - he is the man - Best - who
mouths Nazi platitudes in a SOUTH
ern accent. But understand the &C.
cent is all that is left of the mamie
is-or was an American newspaper
man who got into one of those
European social impasses. A wom-
more determined one. He finally
found his escape in drugs. That was
an easy case for the Nazis.
Now we come to exhibit number
three: Constance Drexel.
That name will be remembered
by magazine and newspaper read
ers of some two decades ago. It is
a pseudonym chosen because, l
imagine, her real one would not
have sounded as pleasant in Phila-
delphia where she worked on a
newspaper.
She had interviewed the Queen of
Spain and other notables in her day
Chat dates her), but had started 60
ing to seed when she called on me
hoping for an assignment from the
syndicate for which worked in the
middle '20s. She still had some of her
youthful good looks and knew how
to make the most of them.
The next time I ran across her
was in the Potsdammer station in
Berlin, shortly after the war started.
l was returning from Switzerland
and my office had told me Con-
stance Drexel would appear on one
of my periods and I was to edit
her script. She showed it to me as
we rode to my hotel. read it. 1t
was innocuous.
oie ioohSo III younger Dut DeCler
fed. Said she was in Europe doing
some syndicate articles. She made
a broadcast which I did not hear
and I never saw her again-never
heard of her until had returned to
America and caught broadcast of
hers over the shortwave from, Ber-
lin, extolling the virtues of Nazi-
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