The Archive · 1939

Italians and Corsicans Demonstrate

To the demand for Tunis and Corsica made by he Italian crowd in the upper picture demonstrating at Milan, Corsicans at Ajaccio in the lower picture demonstrate before the Napoleon Monument to show their loyalty to France.

Washington, Jan. 11 Germany, Italy and Japan are making "actual military preparations"

the Americas, a conference on Pan-American democracy has been told here.

Dr. David Efron, a New York university professor who is a native of Argentina, produced what he called documentary evidence of Nazi-Fascist activities in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Ecuador, Colombia, the Dominican Republic and other countries.

He told of terrorist organizations in Argentina, establishment of a man naval base, not a Peruvia the port of Malabrigo, on the Peruvi coast, where "German warships and submarines go in and out. The con cession boundaries are guarded by rows of Nazi sentries He charged German and Italian diplomats and officials with attempts io control the Argentine school system, and said students in German colonies wore Nazi uniforms and Swastikas. He reported similar con-K|Gitions in Uruguay and Chile.

He asserted knowledge "of shipments of Italian artillery and machine Euns to Peru along the Ecuadorean border; of the Nazi control of the Colombian airlines, the largest system in South America; of the ier pigeons shot down by hunters in Colombia, found to be carrying data on the defenses of the Panama Canal; of the huge secret shipments of arms from Germany to agents in the li Dominican Republic, to Nicaragua, and to Guatemala."

Jo anese "infiltration," he said, was unobtrusive."—Reuter.

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