LATIN AMERICA: Good-&-Tough Neighbors

Last week in Madrid a full page in the Falangist newspaper Informaciones sagged heavily with the musty weight of Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels' latest caution to Latin America about Yankee imperialism. But the text of this familiar theme had barely reached Central and South American shores, when Dr. Goebbels had got from Latin America new lumps for himself, for Führer and for Fatherland.

In Mexico City President Manuel Avila Camacho's Government, following U.S. example, abruptly severed commercial ties by ordering all 15 German consulates in Mexico closed by Sept. 1, summoning home Mexican consuls from German-held territory on the same date....

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