Clandestine Schools

In Brazil, Axis propaganda mills work day & night. Three years ago, when he established his New State. Brazil's President Getulio Vargas found that his country had 1,200 German schools teaching exclusively in German, that 500 of his new Army conscripts spoke no Portuguese (Brazil's national language). Thereupon President Vargas decreed that every Brazilian school must employ Brazilian teachers, must teach Portuguese. Because they disobeyed his decree, he promptly closed 200 German schools, 60 Japanese. But the Japs were not so easily squelched.

Last fortnight Brazilians were treated to a report by their Department of Education as lurid as a story by E. Phillips Oppenheim. Prowling in a Japanese house in Sao Paulo, said the report, educational inspectors discovered a cunningly concealed trap door in the floor. They called police who found a school in session in the cellar, complete with Japanese teachers, Japanese books, Japanese flags, pictures of the Emperor. They also discovered a set of chemistry books explaining how to make bombs, another set on airplane-making. By last month, the Department Announced, police had ferreted out and closed 78 underground Japanese schools.

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