The Uruguayan authorities have released 10 Nazi leaders who had been held in connection with the recently-discovered plot to seize Uruguay as a Reich agricultural colony, the New York Times reported today from Montevide The dispatch attributed the release to pressure from Berlin and also from one of Uruguay’s neighbors.
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