The Archive · 1941

Argentine Demands

Expulsion of Nazi Ambassador

Buenos Aires, Sept. 15.

Charging. "abuse" of diplomatic leges, the Argentine Congress passed a resolution demanding that the government expel the. Ger-Ambassador, Dr. Edmund von mann within 72 hours.

The resolution followed an inten-Sive investigation carried on by the Turco tine Congressional committee investigating subversive activities, headed by Mr. Raoul Taborda, which feportediy uncovered documentary idence that the German Ambassador had been the principal leader in, subversive Nazi organizations in the Argentine.

it was recalled that Captain Fritz Weidemann, Chancellor Adolf Hitler's trusted lieutenant and former Germän Consul-General in San Francisco, arrived here yesterday by plane from Rio de Janeiro on a "special mission" to South Amerita, Mr. Taborda yesterday was quoted as saying, "If Captain Weidemann attempts to stay over in Argentina, he will be detained."—Domei.

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