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...bases it is like stamping on every finger of our two hands." Brazil, on the other hand, is overwhelmingly pro-American, "but there are strong pro-German influences. . . ." The Fifth Column (the expression is banned from Brazilian newspapers) centers in the German Embassy, "and its life blood, the L.A.T.I., Condor, and other Axis airlines." President Getulio Dornelles Vargas is reported to have said that if his local Germans make trouble, he "will eat them alive." But "the Nazis realize the extreme importance of Brazil, and devote tremendous energy to it. ... The Germans are reputed to spend...
Through this cordon a suspicious looking car tried to pass. The police halted it, arrested Karl Heinz Sandstede, brother of the fugitive. Thinking they had the right man, they relaxed their watch. Early the next morning Gottfried Sandstede boarded a Condor plane for Brazil. As he arrived in Rio de Janeiro Ambassador von Thermann announced blandly that Herr Sandstede had been recalled to Berlin to report on anti-German activities in Argentina...
Brazil was the scene of a commercial air battle. Germany's Condor Airline already covers the Brazilian coast, throws a big loop into the up-country jungles. As Brazil called for bids for another inland airline, Condor prepared to bid for it against U.S.-owned Panair do Brasil, meanwhile ran its plane over the route, carrying a steady trickle of German "tourists" inland...
Throughout Latin America, the blacklist meant an uprooting of long-established commercial relations. Great German firms like Agfa, Bayer and Merck Chemicals, Siemens and A.E.G. (German General Electric), Carl Zeiss (cameras), Condor and Lufthansa air lines were on the list. So were lesser German and Italian firms, some innocent neutrals and Americans...
...embassy thought it a mistake. In the lineup outside the Commercial Attaché's door was the cousin of Brazil's Foreign Minister Aranha, wondering why his Navebraz shipping company was listed. Brazilian legalists asked whether Standard Oil's Brazilian subsidiary would sell gas to Condor. If not, would it run afoul of Brazil's anti-trust laws? If yes, would Standard blacklist its subsidiary? In Buenos Aires, annoyed and puzzled businessmen chiefly feared a rise in prices, since German firms usually underquote...