News: Pro-Nazi is Hunted
News account indicating that the Argentine authorities actually revoked Ustase leader Ante Pavelic's asylum after the international attention brought by the attempt against his life on the night of April 10, 1957. However, as the second paragraph alludes, he had already left for Spain, where he would succumb to injuries from the attack two years later.

 

April 27, 1957

PRO-NAZI IS HUNTED

Argentina Orders Arrest of Wounded Yugoslav

BUENOS AIRES, April 26 (UP) - The Ministry of Interior tonight issues an order for the arrest of Ante Pavelic, prominent pro-Nazi leader in Yugoslavia who headed the independent Croatian state set up during the invasion by Hitler's armies.

The Ministry said Pavelic had disappeared from his home in suburban Buenos Aires and was considered a fugitive.

He was shot and seriously wounded by an unidentified assailant two weeks ago. He was hit in the right shoulder and near the spinal column.

Pavelic came to Argentina in 1946. the Yugoslav Government is seeking his extradition as a war criminal.

 

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Title: News: Pro-Nazi is Hunted
Source: United Press. Transcribed by Erica Case.
Date: April 26, 1957 (published April 27, 1957) Added: November 26, 2003