Information in the possession of United States Foreign Service officers shows that German agents in South America have made a racket of accepting large cash payments from firms for not enforcing the Reich order for a boycott against firms retaining Jews as employees, the New York Times reported today. In Peru, for instance, there are three known cases where German agents have accepted money to permit Peruvian firms to do business with Germany while retaining their Jewish employees.
Important South American business houses of all the west coast countries of South American have been notified by German agents that unless they discharge all Jewish employees they will not get any more German business, the dispatch said. This order is not confined to German Jews, but includes Jews born in South America. The dispatch was written by John W. White, chief South American correspondent of the Times, in connection with the meeting of U.S. Foreign Service officers, which opened today in Lima, Peru, and was filed from Antofagasta, Chile, to avoid Peruvian censorship.
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