Evening star., 1951-07-01

ital are required to exploit it sue
cessfully, and Brazil does not have
that capital.
Ever since World War II Bra
lillian nationalists, prompted by
the Communists, have been in
sisting that foreign and especially
Yankee Imperialists" must not
be allowed to exploit our pc
troleum riches"
But the other day DR.. Joao
NeveS da Fontoura. Foreign Min
lister. undoubtedly. with the back
ing of President Vargas. went be-
fore a Joint session of the Brazil
ian Congress and bluntlJ told the
Legislators and the country, in
effect, that the Communists
through their nationalist stooges
were actually preventing the
Brazilian nation from expanding
it's economy and providing more
work, jobs, and everyday neces-
stiles for the people.
Brazil does not have the
capital necessary to develop its
great natural resources alone"
lhe said. 1.-The United States Is
perfectly willing to supply much
Of the means to expand our oil
industry. Private United States
capital" he went on, "is also will
ing to help to the job in co-opera-
ton with Brazilians. But this
does not mean that the Govern
ment would be selling the coun-
try's birthright ~ foreigners"
This is the first time in five years
that high Brazilian Official has
been willing to go so far in criti-
cism of the nationalist forces in
his country. -
A series of strikes have all but
,paralyzed the United States.
operated copper industry i Chile.
At this critical moment copper Is
one of our most strategic neces-
sites. Chile was one of the first
countries in the New World to
outlaw the Communist Party, but
the Reds have continued to
operate through nationalist labor
unions and other organizations.
Labor leaders. parading as patri-
otic nationalists, who for years
have rallied against Yankee ex-
ploitation of Chile's mineral
wealth, are carrying on the work
of the Reds.
Labor Accused in Chile
| Last week officials of the gov
ernment of President Gabriel Con-
zalez Videla accused number Of
top union leaders of being out
right Communists. Five of the
ring leaders have been arrested
and will be prosecuted under the
anti Communist law for "the per-
manent defense of democracy. T."
The Minister of the Interior told
the nation that the copper strikes
were not only designed to handi-
cap the United States in the pres
lent emergency, but that they were
endangering Chilean economy.
"These strikes" he declared,
"are all part of a subversive move
ment carefully planned by Chill
cans who obey the schemes and
orders from Russia and thus en-.
deavbr to heighten the cold war
between the East and the West.
They are trying to arrest the pro.
Iduction of war materials for con-
lIsignment to democratic nations
and. in particular, the United
States"
I In other countries there is seri-
Gus interference with foreign
owned and particularly United
States enterprise. In Cuba sew
eral concerns. including sugar
plantations owned by United
States interests, have recently been
e !interfered with, the management
3 taken over temporarily by local
S officials in various provinces with
I the excuse that the owners have
= not complied with numerous gov
ernmenIal and labor regulations.
S Last week several hundred en-
! ployes of the British-owned United
4 Railroads of Havana marched to
D the presidential palace and
through their spokesmen de-
manded the immediate national
iization of the company.
: 1t is significant that the pro-
/ gram of the extreme nationalist
v groups throughout Latin America
5 comedies with the Moscow line.
First of all, they want to prevent
3, the Yankee Imperialists" from
: exploiting the great natural re-
sources of the various countries.
Second, they are putting every
difficulty in the way of the opera
tion of any industry thattsupplies
strategic materials to this and
other Allied countries.
In Argentina the fanatically
nationalist government of Presi-
dent Peron and the PeroniSta
press are again using the Yankees
as the whipping boys in the cam
paign to continue Peron as Presi-
dent and elect his glamorous wife
Eva as Vice President in the COM
ing general elections. Daily 1.-The
North American interventionists'
are denounced. In Uruguay the
ro-Peronista and extreme ma
tionalist Herreristas, the party Of
Yankee-hating old DR.. Luis AL
berto Herrera, still think North
American imperialism is a greater
danger to their country than COM
muniSm.
All of which are contradictions
of the pledges made by every sin
gle, one of the 20 Latin American
countries, not only in the Charter
of the United Nations, but in the
Charter of the Organization of
American States. including the
Rio defense pact and the Bogota
anti-C Communist pact, which were
reafirmed at the recent American
foreign ministers meeting in