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...Chile last week chose the United Nations course. While some 2,000 Chileans gathered outside the Senate building in Santiago's Montt-Varas Square, the Senate voted 30-to-10 for a break with the Axis. When the result was announced, the crowd broke into the national anthem. That evening tough, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos conferred at length with his Cabinet at his summer home in a Santiago suburb. The next morning he put his signature on the rupture decree...
...that the same con that's in chile con carne, the popular Mexican blue plate special...
...rupture with the Axis, as President Juan Antonio Ríos told his country last November, would be tantamount to declaring war and would mean real sacrifices for the nation's already hard-pressed economy. In Washington Dr. Morales had mentioned Chile's vulnerable, 2,800-mile long coastline, the danger to her lifeline of ships, the political difficulties arising out of her large colonies of Germans...
Chileans did not know what aid-if any -they might expect from the U.S. Their President had told them that the country's honor would not permit Chile to ask for military assistance. So they looked forward to a period of suffering if they entered the war. But the Government was prepared. President Ríos last week signed the External Security Bill, which gave him full powers to break relations with the Axis. Almost the equivalent of a state of siege, the law, if invoked, would permit him to clamp down on all Axis nationals...
...rumors that President Ríos was attempting to obtain joint action from stubborn Ramón S. Castillo's Argentine Government. In the Argentine capital observers noted signs that Castillo was planning a hasty trip to Santiago. That might also mean a last Argentine effort to keep Chile on the path of Argentina's "prudent neutrality." The issue was plain. At the Senate's session this week, Chile would have to choose...