The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-04-03


 ported. 'vThe day Argentine returns to the democratic camp will not dawn until Colonel Juan Peron, Ar genuine fascism's Number One boy, is jailed or hung by a new non- military govt of the people, Ar esntina's colonels clique last week declared war on the Axis. In some U. c. quarters she's already being hailed as our hemisphere pal. This is to tell the American people it's . phcuy.
 The ArKentine colonels who de- cided to sit this one out, who gave IFitler's boys a chance to set up h'auarters on the Rio de la Plata to get set for their next try at plung- ing the world into war, have jumped on the bandwagon, thanks to the door left open for them at the re- cent Mexico City Conference of American Foreign Ministers .. Democracy's pals in Latin America wanted the question thrashed out then and there. Instead, at the instance of certain Washington ap- peasers, it was chewed over in pri- yata huddles and the doormat put out for Argentina to come back into the American family by prom asing to be good Can Colonel Peron. Vice President, War Min- 4ster, Secretary of Labor and Well fare, and pal of Fritz Mandl (now running Argentinas armaments in- dustry with Maxi backing) be trust ed? Look at the record.
 when the putsch came in June. aoA3, the Argentine generals and the admirals who took over prom ased: (l) We're just in to clean up things and then turn the country back to the people; (2) we have no personal ambitions; (3) we want to line up Argentina with the rest of the Americas What actually happened was not only cased and texted in the shudder-filled pages of Argentine Diary" Ray JosephS' ], exciting expose-which this reporter twas the first to reveal to the U. s. public-but double-checked in of- ficial documents issued by our owr' State Dept itself.
 Col. Peron and l1ls -admirinn spals-many of them recipients o free trips to Germany, Italy ant Franco Spain, plus everything from aoanS to mistresses provided by the Thoughtful reps from the Wilhelm. strasse-didn't waste much time fooling around. There was cabinet in Argentina-it was abolished while strong arming militarists took over Congress was dissolved =. Elections were called off per lnanently Every state governo. walked the plank Y. Universities labor unions, newspapers, press, ra dio-All got the "or else" treatment ;. The "else" was the concentra. ton camp, down in bleak, icy Pata. goniA or mebbe out on Martin Gar. l, cie Island, which was cleared oi ! Na1 Graf Spec sailors supposedly integned there for the duration-in order to make room for Peron's enemies. And Fritz Mandl started making guns, tanks, planes, aided by tourists" who still come over on Spanish boats.
 In January, 1924, Col. Peron & Co., caught using diplomatic cover" up to stnuggle German spies tt Franco Spain, officially broke with l, Berlin and Tokyo, The payoff came . month later when Peron's stooge, General Pedro P. Ramirez, tried to make the break mean some thing Out went Ramirez and in came another front-General sEdelmiro Farrell. whom Argentinos called 'The Phantom"-not oily be- cause he got his job the day Uni- versals Technicolor version of the Phantom of the Opera" opened in Buenos Aires but because he re- sembles the H'wood kerrickter even without makeup.
 Now Col. Peron declares war and announces other steps to get Argen- tina on R. 8. V. P. to the San Fran cisco session "Patria Libre," Arr gentina's pre-democratic resistance movement, has spotted the steps . The declaration itself was framed at "a secret meetitng attended by Per sun, Fritz Mandl, Enrique (Hein- sticl) Hommann (who heads up the German drug, chemical and related trustS), Count Curt von Luxburg (0erman Ambassador to Argentina during the first war and now fi- 11ancial rep for the Nazi and Prus- sian militaristS in Latin America) /; Count Bulnes (Franco's Ambassa- dor) and others .. It was directed primarily against the Japs for, of all things, the Pearl Harbor attack of which word has seemingly just reached the Casa Rosada-Argen- tina'S pink White House. Germany want even included except indi- Yectly as an Axis partner.
 Then 1t was announced the Nazi .eatfits would be closely controlled And who do you suppose got the job2 Another Colonel-Jose Manuel de Olano, who's known down Argentine way as . particular viva shouter for the axis way.
 Baron Shu Tomii, Jap Ambassa- dor, and his staff of thirty were or- dered under police guard in their homes But he's still receiving the regulation allotment of gaso- Nne given Misunderstanding no Q. 6. embassy official has received since washington refused to give the nod to the regime.
 The concentration camps are still running in Argentina Gestapo- trained, their methods are almost unbelievable A favorite instru- 1uent is the electric spur, cable with fine steel needles at the end .. These are applied to the most delicate parts of the naked body the eyelids, sensitive organs and SC on Usually it's applied at two