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...President Gabriel González Videla's return from his U.S. good-will tour, two different groups of Chileans planned welcomes. Santiago officials ordered an arch of triumph, flowers, banners, and a day off for everybody. Communists, proclaiming that "González is handing over Chile to the Yankees," plotted strikes and street demonstrations...
...first week of his U.S. good-will visit, Chile's energetic President Gabriel González Videla lived up to all his advance notices. Flashing a smile reminiscent of F.D.R.'s, he raced from ceremony to celebration with a headlong pace that recalled the late Fiorello La Guardia...
...tactful González never asked for a loan. But he asked the President's moral support for the bill now in Congress to postpone for two more years the imposition of a 2?-a-lb. import tax on foreign copper. He also invited President Truman to visit Chile next November when the country opens its $88 million Concepción steel plant, built with...
...Street. In New York, Chile's González rode behind a screaming motorcycle escort to his hotel, quickly changed clothes, then headed down Fifth Avenue for a sightseer's Saturday-night saunter. "Marvelous, marvelous," he cried, when he made his way through the after-theater crowd in Times Square...
...this has been done at a price. While Chile has denied herself consumer imports in favor of dynamos and blast furnaces, prices and wages have spiraled higher than a condor. Now, with living costs ten times as high as in 1930 and climbing higher it seems necessary to slow down a bit on industrialization and face up to the problems of credit, taxes, wages and prices so that Chile's economy can hold steady until the fruits of Fomento come onto the market. Gonzalez, who knows this, may not even discuss industrial loans on this visit...