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Five months ago Brazil's sharp-eyed little President Getulio Dornelles Vargas started clipping the wings of the German Condor airline. First snip came in June when he refused a petition of the Rio-São Paulo branch to keep two of its Nazi pilots on the payroll. Last month he cut a little closer, canceled a contract for service be tween Belem (formerly Pará), at the mouth of the Amazon, and the French Guiana frontier. Three weeks ago he brought out his shears again, ousted all foreign pilots, whether naturalized or not, from Brazilian airlines...
...last week well-plucked Condor turned amphibian. Taking to the water, it signed a contract with Snapp Navigation Co. of Brazil for service up the Amazon. The new river line will connect Condor's coastal route to its line running up along the Bolivian-Brazilian frontier, will give its systems in Ecuador, Bolivia and Peru access to an Atlantic outlet. If President Vargas' three-week-old promise of domestic colonization and agricultural development in the Amazon goes through, Condor will have a wedge into the heart of Brazil's richest territory...
Marshal Sperrle is the Prussian type-massive, heavy-featured, monocled. He flew in World War I, was shot down and severely wounded. He led the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War, where hundreds of Germany's best pilots received their battle training in relays...
Germans in Brazil own textile factories, dye works, paint & chemical plants, machine and tractor factories. They run retail establishments, hotels and restaurants up & down the country. The German-owned airline, Syndicato Condor, operates down the Brazilian coast to Buenos Aires, across the Andes to Santiago. It also runs a profitless branch line to Xapury, 2,000 miles up into the Amazonian wilderness. Germany tried to underwrite a huge Brazilian steel industry, but was outmaneuvered by Washington, which last week was waiting for approval from Rio of a $17,000,000 Export-Import Bank loan...
...French accounts agreed with Polish, that most German pilots captured were youths of 19, 20, 21. The seasoned Nazi Condor squadron of Spanish Civil War fame was reported to have reached the Western Front from Poland. French pilots claimed to have proved that their U. S.-built Curtiss pursuit ships will outfly the Nazis' much-touted Messerschmidts...