efforts. Labougle replied that the commercial side was
another view of the picture, that the Germans practiced
dumping and other things that were generally considered
"unfair practices in trade". However, Labougle continued,
the United States had never attempted to utilize their
commercial advantages as a means of spreading political
theories and this was a policy of the German Government
which the Argentine could not tolerate. Labougle states
that he continued by warning the German Ambassador that
if they followed their present practice among the states
of Latin America they would encounter a reaction which
would be lamentable for German trade and German culture
in these lands.
 
 This ends the account of the interview. Labougle
said to me further that for five years he had been warning 
his Government about what the Germans were trying to
get at in the German colonies residing abroad, and it
was only recently his Government had become awake to
the danger. He was apprehensive of the whole movement,
in view of the apparently Uninterrupted line of successes 
of Germany, and feared that it might give encouragement 
in the following up Of their proselyting ideas
in a still more active form.
 
 I write this letter not knowing whether you have
yet returned from your vacation. If so, I hope it has
done you no end of good and that you get back to your
desk full of vigor and health.
 
Yours, as ever,
HUGH R. WILSON