Anticipated Resumption Of Influence Attacked Madrid, Oct..1.
The newspaper "Hoja Official del Lunes," in an editorial today, attacks United States influence in South America, whither it thinks American efforts will be directed now that the United States has been "defeated on the European and Asiatic fronts."
The Spanish press is always suspicious of any signs of collaboration between North and South America, Spain regarding herself as the rightful cultural and spiritual leader of the latter Continent.
The newly-acquired Spanish liner Caba de Hornos was blessed at Bilbao yesterday in the presence of a representative of the Minister of Marine and the Consuls of Argentine, Brazil, Uruguay and Portugal. The liner is owned by the Toarra Company and will-run to South America—Reuter.
"Within six months, solemn pledges given by the unscrupulous men who control the the destiny of Germany were broken, and the agreement was destroyed with a ruthlessness which unmasked their true nature and their reckless ambition to the whole world.
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