Aryans a la Argentine

On Wednesday night-V.J. plus 365-the United Press carried a story from their Buenos Aires bureau of an interview with Dr. Santiago Peralta, Director of Migration in the Peron government. An interview which, on the anniversary of the end of World War II, sounded the first Fascist call to arms for World War III. Peralta announced bluntly that in the near future 1,000 Norwegian quislings would be allowed to enter and settle in the Argentine, and went on to say that arrangements have almost been completed whereby General Anders' notorious Polish Army would also be granted admission.

This pronouncement represents the opening gambit i the grandiose scheme of the Peronistas to increase the population of Argentine in the next fifty years to 100,000,000 people. An amateur ethnologist of the Alfred Rosenberg variety, Peralta plays the same role of racial philosopher i the Peron cabinet as did Rosenberg in the Nazi regime. While sharing Rosenberg's views on Aryans and Jews, he nevertheless believes that Europe is through, that the Continent is "doomed never to return from its slump back into the Middle Ages." The German Gotter-dammerung is complete, now it is the Argentine which becomes the wave of the future. Already sheltering a million Germans and Italians within her borders, including several ex-leaders of the SS and Gestapo, Argentina is preparing under Peralta's direction to admit only the "technically superior people of the world" of "the best racial types." What Peralta deems "technically superior people" is demonstrated in his relevation that the men of Anders' army will be allowed to bring along their equipment, "including tanks, which we will immediately convert to tractors."

Perhaps the most tragic irony in the whole history of the Hitler era was that he boldly announced his plans of conquest, while the rest of the world stood by, either unbelieving or too morally bankrupt to act. It is incredible that only one year after the conclusion of the bloodiest war in history, the United States, through the Act of Chapultepee, stands in quasi-alliance with the potentially great Fascist power of the next generation, while at the same time the Soviet Union enters upon diplomatic relations with that power. Whatever the decisions of the Paris conference, so long as the United States and the Soviet Union supply building blocks for Argentine fascism, the peace of the world stands endangered.