Evening star., 1944-10-22
U. S.-Argentine Relations
Bar American Solidarity
Stalemate Caused as u. S. Refuses Recognition
Till Axis Propaganda Ends, but Farrell
Won't Act Unrecognized
By Joseph H. Baird

! the United States and sent to the other
American republics by the Advisory Com
| mittee: TT has been established that
from this base of operations (Argentina)
| the Germans have spread the net of
| their subversive organization to at least
| 10 American countries, and that as a
result of their work large number of
American lives, considerable American
property and the lives and property Of
the citizens and countries of the United
Nations which are engaged in the strug-
gle against the totalitarian powers have
been lost"
Berlin Was Advised.
There followed dossier of scores of
radiograms sent to Berlin giving the
sailing dates of American and British
ships, the movement of American air.
craft and production statistics of United
States war plants. Some were astound-
ing in their detail.
2. Psychological warfare. Even today
the Farrell regime has done nothing to
stop the publication of such outspoken
pro-Nazi publications, subsidized from
Germany, as Ell Federal, Cabildo and
La Fronda. These journals, which cir
culate also in Uruguay and Chile, as a
matter of daily policy play up alleged
British-United States misunderstand-
ing, seek to promote suspicion of United
States imperialism" and applaud Nazi
philosophy. Similar anti-United States
propaganda is carried on by Argentine
press attaches in the other American
nations.
3. AS result of Argentine contracts
under the Farrell regimes armament
program, the current earnings of such
obvious German firms as Thyssen in the
metallurgical field, and Fritz Mandl and
Bayer In steel, chemicals and textiles
are tripling and quadrupling their pre-
war profits in Argentina. These firms
have been granted priorities on ma
terials and economic privileges in Ar
gentina which are denied United States
plants operating there.
Slow to Gust Naxis.
4. Political. 1t is charged here that
the Argentine government officially Is
using its power of economic prepon-
derance in Latin America in an attempt
to drive wedge between the United
States on the one hand and Uruguay
Paraguay, Chile, Bolivia and Peru on
the other
The Farrell regime, it is charged. Is
attempting to accomplish this aim
through number of techniques, one
being to grant priorities on certain crit
ical materials
Although Argentina. as pointed out
earlier. did after a delay of some two
years after the Rio de Janeiro agree
ment, finally break relations with Ger
many and Japan, it was in no hurry
actually to expel their diplomatic
stats. They were allowed to remain
in Buenos Aires, with complete freedom
OF movement, for nearly six months after
the severance of official ties. This
naturally gave them an opportunity to
build up stats Of propagandists and
espionage agents to carry on their work
after they were gone.
These, then, are the basic facts that
confront the State Department in at
tempting to halt what President Roose-
welt recently described as "the growth
OF Nazi-Fascist influence and the in
creasing application of Nazi-Fascist
methods in country of this hemi-
sphere at the very time that those forces
OF oppression and aggression are draw