With Nazis intensifying their activities, the press is urging the Government to exercise more careful surveillance of the fifth column in Bolivia.
According to newspapers, the German school in La Paz, which is attended by some Bolivian children as well as Germans, is a center of Nazi activity. Several days ago a celebration was held in the school during which a teacher demanded that the pupils give the “Heil Hitler” salute. An attempt was made in the school to replace portraits of Bolivar and Sucre, Bolivia’s liberators, with a picture of Hitler.
In a cafe, a Nazi shouted: “Down with Bolivial Long live Hitler!”
Several anti-Semitic newspapers supported by the Nazis are conducting violent propaganda for expulsion of the Jews. These papers deal in various sorts of anti-Jewish allegations, such as that Jews bring social diseases into Bolivia.
Bolivian newspapers, especially La Razon, warn the Government to watch the illegal Nazi party. German business men operate important enterprises here. In 1934, a group of Nazis asked the President to legalize the Nazi party, but he refused. Since then the party has been conducting its activities secretly.
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