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...patience of tall, cool Sumner Welles suddenly ran out. For months the State Department had politely nudged the governments of Argentina and Chile, reminding them of hemispheric unity. But Argentina, under isolationist President Ramón S. Castillo, stayed stubbornly unregenerate. And Chile, under veteran politico President Juan Antonio Rios, kept coy. They, alone of all the Americas, refused to break relations with the Axis...
Embarrassing to the State Department were the reactions of other South American countries, which began to ask questions. Why should Chile continue to receive U.S. supplies, as she did? Propaganda even spread that she was getting more than her share. Was this the way countries which had followed the U.S. foreign policy were to be rewarded? So last week Under Secretary of State Welles, architect of the Good Neighbor policy, lighted up with a hard, angry glow...
...said that Argentina and Chile were being used by Axis agents "as a base for hostile activities against their neighbors." Axis espionage had resulted in the sinking of neighbors' ships. Mr. Welles could not believe that this would go on much longer, that Argentina and Chile would permit their neighbors to "be stabbed in the back" by those agents now operating under their protection...
...choice of Santiago as a common meeting ground recognized Chile's hemisphere prominence in social-security legislation. Since 1925 Chile's Caja de Seguro Obligatorio (Obligatory Social Insurance Board) has provided sickness and maternity benefits, pensions for invalids and the aged...
...conference large German settlements in southern Chile and wealthy owners of estates and businesses may have seen another step toward hemisphere unity. These groups were less interested in social security than in the continuation of Chilean neutrality...