Francisco Flores: Actos le hacen justicia a Arias Madrid

At Berlin, Dr. Arnulfo Arias was treated as an important and influential personality and received by Hitler, Goering, Goebbels, Himmler and others of the most powerful and strategically placed Nazis. This visit of Dr. Arias was solemnly stated to have "no political significance," but in fact it was a typical Nazi job. Dr. Arias was under the sympathetic and cal­ culating tutelage of Nazi specialists and with typical German thoroughness, he was given a short but in­ tensive course in Nazi public administration and party organization. In these matters the intermediary be­ tween him and his Nazi hosts and patrons was Fran­ cisco Villalas....Throughout his period in exile in the early and middle 1940s, Arias traveled extensively around the continent, al­ ways working in close coordination with known Nazi agents and attempting to forge a Nazi support apparatus wherever he went. On Oct. to, 1942, U.S. Ambassador to Chile Bowers sent the following "strictly confidential" airgram to the Secretary of State:

Este acto no es para el Fufo, es para la Yeya y sus manzanillos.