Show VIA 6 U 0 aw washington D C wan WAH IN SOUTH AMERICA most molt americans have been so 50 engrossed in the world war that it 11 you told them war was brewing right here in the western hemisphere they never would belleve believe it yet buzzing backstage in the washington diplomatic corps has been a growing worrying reverberation over the ultimate danger ot of war between argentina and chile not this year perhaps not next year but before very long additional attention was focused on the unhappy situation with ar guntinas gentina gen tinas 3 bid for a conference of pan american foreign ministers on an obvious move to put the U S A on the spot and force recognition of the fascist farrell anili militarist ta rist government in argentina the whole tangled diplomatic controversy tro versy between argentina the united states and other neighbors la is so involved that it takes an e expert x to understand it 1 but out of the mess emerges these basic and alarming facts I 1 argentina Is rushing armament hedy Larn lamaris La marrs arrs fornier former husband crift blandel BI andel the austrian munitions king about whom idiots delight was written Is busy building airplanes for argentina night and day 2 argentina could bomb S santiago an tf ag a capital of chile from mendoza just across the andes in 40 minutes it would take alv five e hours for chile to bomb buenos alres aires capital of argentina argenal na 3 the people of chile today are worried sick over argentina tina the socialist communist and conservative parties usually vigorously divergent are now united on this they fear fea that the argentine fas fascists c ests looking for means of keeping themselves in power as hitler did with the german people gift will make a czechoslovakia out of chile brazilians Brazi lians admire argentina other litan americans are re divided paraguay bolivia peru sympathize with argentina officially lally brazil does not but actually the brazilian army plus many of the brazilian people are tooting rooting sympathetically for the one country south routh of the rio grande which has successfully thumbed its nose at the colossus of the north and got away with it nothing succeeds like success especially in the latin american mind the state department adopted only hallway halfway measures with argentina snubbed her diplomatically but made her prosperous economically by continuing to buy meat the Ar gentines care much it if they were snubbed as long as they were prosperous result Is that many good neighbors though not liking argentine fascism enjoy seeing U S diplomacy come to grief NOTE meanwhile the united states is less equipped to handle things in our own hemisphere than ever before in two decades secretary hull Is sick ilia his best latin american experts were friends of sumner welles and were given the gate after welles resigned concerning THE WARS END A lot of people haye tried their hand at predicting the wars end including this columnist some were high up officials some private some were pretty good s some me pretty bad rep earl wilson indiana republican in june 1943 got an average a ge compilation horn from congressmen that the war would be over in october 1944 adm william F halsey who predicted complete absolute defeat for the axis in 1943 1 was asked again on december 13 1943 and so sure when the war would be over gen hap arnold chief of the air ir forces on february 14 1943 predicted the german war will will be over by february 14 1944 1 jim im parley farley on january 20 1943 the war will be over this year yea gen levin campbell january IS 13 1943 the war will be over in about two years herbert hoover november fl 6 1943 1043 certainly we ire are now in the last stages of the war raymonl raymond moley november 8 1943 predicted end of the war earlier than envisioned by the administration tra tion senator wyoming democrat january 2 1944 1044 the most conservative swedish observe ers do not believe that germany can endure beyond next J awe e 11 sun fo president of the legislative yuan of china january 2 1944 germany will be knocked out between the spring and summer of I 1 this year henry ford march 20 1944 predicted war would be over in two months senator mckellar of tennessee july 21 1944 the red army will be in berlin in 60 days the war will be over oter on all fronts in fai six months |