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Patagonia state that they saw he kroup of Germans, whow to Ar id manner were un- Mistakably thu of German officers, suceting on the estate of the German Lahusen Company. This company is extremely active in the wool trade and is considered a most important Nazi spearhead in southern Argen- tina. . On June 25th, Assistant Secretary of State Clayton submittcd to the Senate Military Affairs Committee evidence that Argentina has failed to eliminate a single case of Suspected German economic Penetration. Ac- cording to evidence submitted by Mr. Clayton, the Allies have been unable so far to yeach some 104 Axis spear- heads in Argentina. And, significant- ly enough, the campaign to eliminate these’ spearheads also has not fared so well in either Paraguay or Uru- Guay, the neighbors of Argentina. Meanwhile, inside Argentina the terror gocs on. The releasc of a reported hundred or so political pris- oners, most of them humble persons of no great political standing, has been followed by the arrest and im- prisonment of other hundreds—per- haps thousands. In Argentina, peo- waved from ple say that Peron is following a “system of rotating arrests”—untj] he can build jails enough to hold the entire population. Our former Ambassador to Buenos Aires, Spruille Braden, was obliged to use a speech before the British Chamber of Commerce as the occa- son to remind the Argentine Govern- ——— ment that it hae vet climinattd subversive Axi “sand inter- est Speaking Tou. cnonths itfter Poon had signed the Act of Chapul- tepec, and almost two months after their admission to San Francisco as a reward for that “good behavior.” Mr. Braden recited some of the com- mituicnts undertaken by signatories to that document. The implication was that the Argentines had signed with their eyes closed and their fingcrs crossed. Among the pledges recalled by Mr. Braden were: “That war crim- inals shall be tricd and sentenced: that centers of Axis subversive in- fluence throughout the hemisphere shall be eradicated ; and that enemy Properties, investments and other holdings, beginning with those Stolen from their Victinis, shall be soughi out, immobilized and contro}led.” President Truman has since ap- pointed the militant ambassador tc Argentina, Assistant Secretary of State in Charge of Latin American Affairs. Mr. Braden, who has dem- onstrated his democratic convictions. may be expected to liquidate the am- biguities which marked the policy of his predecessor, Nelson D. Rockefei. ler Jr. The State Department knows thar the Germans have a detailed plan to return to Power via steppingstones in neutral nations and that the Nazi leaders and industrialists intended ta " wage a full-scale economic war, even as Allied troops occupied the Ger- man homeland,