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...Thus did Chile last week approach the climax of its long drift toward rupture with the Axis. Dr. Morales had conferred with the U.S., had spent three days consulting Chile's neighbor Government, Argentina, its last partner in neutrality. Now he would tell the Cabinet what he had learned. Then Foreign Minister Joaquín Fernández Fernández would report to the Chilean Senate, asking advice on future foreign policy. Finally a choice, so long deferred, would be made: either neutrality apart from the United Nations, or a diplomatic break with the Axis...
...week after a lone voyage of 13,000 miles from the Rio de la Plata. Time: 159 days. His first question was: "Has Argentina declared war yet?" Told that Argentina was still anchored in neutral waters, lone Yachtsman Dumas made ready to sail on across the South Pacific to Chile...
...White House last week went tall, brooding Dr. Raul Morales Beltrami, who, as Chile's Minister of the Interior, holds the second-highest political office in one of the only two Latin American countries which have not as yet broken relations with the Axis. What he and Franklin Roosevelt discussed was their own secret. Yet observers in North and South America were sure that the visit presaged an early move by Chile toward complete partnership in the United Nations...
...Chile, with a long coastline exposed to possible Japanese attack, has been slow to take official sides in World War II; her careful neutrality moved Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles to make a pungent speech pointing out Axis espionage operations in Chile. If and when Chile breaks with the Axis, and her President Juan Antonio Rios makes the Washington visit which he postponed after the Welles speech, it will be the next to last step (the last: Argentina) in uniting the Western Hemisphere on our side...
...Chile, which for some time has been reported to be, on the verge of a break with the Axis, President Juan Antonio Rios marked the Pearl Harbor anniversary with a message to President Roosevelt and the U.S.: "My country will be at the side of the democracies, defending the ideals of liberty and justice...