Show Fifth Column Conspiracy is described as a sensational report T r t V of a huge nazi filth fifth column conspiracy embracing embracing em em- bracing both North and South America and including plans to sabotage U. U S S. defense preparations preparations prepa rations has been detailed In news dispatches from Mexico The report has no official confirmation and andi andis andis i is not given much credence at Washington However it Isn't wise for America to just pooh pooh-pooh this report It may be just another unfounded rumor still sUll It must be admitted that just such a filth fifth column conspiracy as was described described de de- described de- de scribed In the report Is ts a definite possibility in this hemisphere That nazi agents are active t 1 r in South and Central America we know That there are nazi agents and sympathizers in this country ready to launch a campaign of sabotage sabotage sabo sabo- tage we know It is not at all fantastic to suppose that all the various arms anns of antidemocratic activities in this hemisphere are linked together somehow somehow somehow some some- how into one gigantic conspiracy and that when the time is deemed ripe by the masterminds master minds of ot totalitarianism a concerted effort will be made to disrupt American aid to Britain Brit Brit- am ain hemisphere solidarity and American unity We should keep the possibility of such a conspiracy ever before us not us-not not because it is certain to come but because it is possible possible- and if we anticipate it and are ready for it we will the more easily and firmly stop it it Lets Let's not forget that just such se sensational reports were pooh in Norway in Holland Holland Hol Hol- land and in France to the everlasting regret of those countries |