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must obtain these products wherever they can get them, it would
be to their advantage if a government more friendly to fascism
were in power. But, should that prove impossible, the existence
of a strong, fascist movement would have, in time of war, tre
mendous
potentialities for sabotage.
Hence, Mexico
is
today being battered by pro-fascist propagan
da broadcasts from Germany on special short-wave beams, and
Nazi and fascist agents surreptitiously meet with discontented
generals to weave a network throughout the country.
The radio propaganda is devoted chiefly to selling the wonders
of totalitarian government, and to the dissemination of subtle,
indirect comments calculated to turn popular feeling against the
United States. In addition to regular broadcasts, material printed
in Spanish and in German by the Fichte Bund with headquarters
in Hamburg, Germany, is smuggled into Mexico in commercial
shipments. A Nazi bund to direct this propaganda was organ
ized secretly because of the government s unfriendly attitude
toward fascism. The bund operates as the Deutsche Volksgemeinschaft
the
propaganda center functions under the name of
Charities." This
organization, on the top
of the building at 80 Uruguay Street, Mexico City, is
and
its
"United
floor
actually the
German
"Brown House,"
in direct contact with Nazi propa
ganda headquarters in Hamburg.
Some of the propaganda distributed in
Mexico is smuggled
Nazi ships docking in Los Angeles, and is transported across
the American border by agents working under Hermann Schwinn,
director of Nazi activities for the West Coast of the United
off
States.
The propaganda
border
is
Schwinn across the American
around Guaymas, where a spe
cial effort is being made to win the sympathy of the people.
Meanwhile Yocupicio caches arms in Ures and the bland Jap
sent by
chiefly for distribution
anese continue charting the harbors and coast lines.