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...Topaze, a splashy red-&-black-ink 5? weekly, printed in Délano's native Santiago, Chile, is small (7¼ in. by 10¼ in.) and devoted largely to political cartoons. As a true barometer of Chile's political trends and moods, it invariably finds its way each week to the U.S. State Department, to the other chancelleries of the Western Hemisphere...
Satire, Ridicule. When Señor Délano, Chile's pioneer motion-picture producer, launched Topaze in 1931, his friends predicted it would flop. It clicked from the start. Last week, twelve years old, it was prospering (45,000 subscribers, in a country of only 5,000,000 inhabitants, 55% illiterate...
...simply drawn cartoon characters who appear in the magazine regularly and through whom Publisher Délano voices his own opinions. One is a bearded, elongated intellectual known as "Professor Topaze." The other is a shoeless, runty, ragged but usually grinning oaf called "Juan Verdejo." He represents Chile's lower classes, is so well known that all over Chile his name has come to be used much as "John Q. Public" is used...
Meanwhile, the British Navy, with the help first of France, then of the U.S. and others, began to maintain a world patrol of its own. In Mexico, Chile and Argentina, at Navarino in Greece, at Dulcigno on the Adriatic and at Peking during the Boxer Rebellion, against the Barbary pirates and the pirates of the Far East, Britain and other great powers used force or the threat of force to keep the peace...
Stern, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos of Chile has been faced since his election in February 1942 with a chronic political crisis. His problem: to appease refractory, quarreling politicians of nine parties who cannot agree among themselves on what they want. His solutions: recurrent Cabinet reshuffles. His results: none...