Washington, June 20.
Influential Senators expressed concern today over the reported disclosure of a Nazi plot to seize control of Uruguay. Several Senators suggested that the United States should provide any help the Uruguayan Government may request, in-tinding the dispatch of battleships, They said the mere existence of any organized plot was a matter for concern.
Senator Tom Connolly, member of the Foreign Relations Committee and Democrat of Texas, said, "If the Montevideo authorities request any air assistance from the United States we should help to the fullest. We should send battleships or whatever help Uruguay wants for the preservation of the Republic's sovereignty as well as for the defence of the whole hemisphere."
The Nazi Investigating Committee Oi the Chamber of Deputies in Uruguay reported that secret Nazi Political and milit organizations had been discovered throughout Uruguay More than 150 German motorcyclists were discovered in Uruguay, and the Committee reported that these persons had been designated as "shock troops" in a future attack on the Government.
Nazi political heads in Uruguay planned to occur the Republic with an active army and a reserve army. "bribing peasants to joint their forces," the committee revealed.—
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