ra y in its English broadcast that the United States had committed an act of bely through President Roosevelt's issuance of a black list of 1.800 Latin-American firms which were agents for Axis countries, "President Roosevelt's decision to black-list neutrals can be considered juridically as an act of belligerency by one neutral against other neutrols," the radio stated.
"The "Voce d Italia" published an editorial by Sig Virginia Gayda claiming that President Roosevelt was trying to dominate South American countries economically so as to be able to lead them more easily into war against the Axis, Sig. Gayda declared that the black-list was already meeting with posi tion from South American countries. chiefly Argentina. Brazil, Peru and Chile.
"The black-list constitutes another step in President Roosevelt intervention ist policy," Sig. Gayda wrote, "The economic war has been exiended from the Axis powers to their South American friends and col laboratory, But at present we can stress only three points:
"Nothing of course could be the truth, gi Three "Points"
"l. President Roosevelt's new measures hit the interests of thousands of South American citizens whose only error has been to have established and maintained commercial relations with Italy and Germany.
"2, The United States' economic war against the Axis is not aimed at saving democracy but instead a destroying as much as possible of the basis of thriving Italo-German commerce in South America for the purpose of replacing it with exclu-Sive commercial and banking domination by the United States, which would inevitably be followed by political control as well The United States interventionist policy is aimed at plunging into an economic war—which would naturally sooner or later develop into political war—all South Ameri can countries which, beira wiser and more realistic. only want to preserve the independence of their nationals which is not threatened by Europe." Sig. Gayda concluded.—United Press.
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