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Busy drafting protests of innocence to the Argentine Foreign Office, Ambassador von Thermann had the added worry of an unpopular guest. This was Captain Fritz Wiedemann, who was ousted this summer from the German Consulate in San Francisco...
...Captain Wiedemann suddenly turned up in Rio de Janeiro last week by plane from Europe (TIME, Sept. 15). To reporters he said expansively that he had a "special mission" in South America that would take him to Argentina and Chile. On hearing this, Deputy Damonte sent police to the Buenos Aires airport, announced that he would question Wiedemann closely the moment he arrived...
...virtue of the fact that Argentina and Brazil are somewhat jealous of each other's influence in Paraguay. With a harmonious rattle, U.S. -made light tanks and German-made anti-aircraft guns rolled down the Praça da Republica. Even U.S.-ousted Nazi Consul General Fritz Wiedemann, who turned up in Rio for the birthday party, purred that he was on a "special mission...
There was many an awkward delay before the U.S.S. West Point finally got away. In San Francisco, 2,570 miles away, debonair Consul General Captain Fritz Wiedemann and Dr. Johannes Borchers, German consul general in New York City, with an entourage of 14 people, had had to cancel their passage on a Japanese liner sailing two days before the President's deadline expired on July 15. The British safe conduct to Japan had arrived too late. Captain Wiedemann talked to Washington and Berlin. Then he chartered three planes, stowed his party and their luggage aboard, and sped eastward. Said...
...Princess Stephanie Hohenlohe-Waldenbourg-Schillingfurst, confidante of Captain Fritz Wiedemann, Nazi consul general in San Francisco, who was ordered deported last March for overstaying her visitor's leave, Attorney General Jackson said, "We feel better-natured about her." Reason: she had given the Government "some very interesting information...