Warning that South America has become a fertile field for Nazi propaganda was sounded tonight by Col. Reginald Tristram Harper, director of the Buenos Aires Great Southern Railway. In Chile, nationals of German blood have been organized into paramilitary groups by Nazi “missionaries,” Col. Harper said in a speech here. In other South American republics, German and Italian professors volunteer, and many times are accepted to teach without pay in schools and universities, he added.
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