Word: chiles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Strong-Man Rios, since his inauguration last April, has itched to use strong-arm methods in healing splits that World War II has brought to Chile. Last week in Santiago, 20,000 Chileans, clamoring for Pan-American solidarity, demanded an immediate break with the Axis. Only the President had power to grant their demand. Had Rios been there, he might have reminded them of Chile's 2,660-mile unprotected coastline; he might even have said that his Government has already gone as far as it intends to go in placating Pan-Americans: it has warned the Axis that...
Trouble at Home. Besides, President Rios had more exclusively Chilean problems to think about. Victim of an acute war-born economic crisis, Chile suffers severe shortages in gasoline, tin plate, rubber, steel. Since 1941 the cost of living has gone up 39%. With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier...
...than they had hoped. Senator Fernando Alessandri Rodriguez had whipped behind the President the full support of the Rightist Liberal Party. Semi-Fascist Falangists had begun to appear in key posts. Rightists were trying to get rid of Socialist ministers, one of the most pro-U.S. groups in Chile...
...move last week, Leftist parties organized a new National Democratic Front. Its avowed aims: to put down Nazi & Fascist activities, work for a break with the Axis. But some of the Rightists are anti-Axis, too, and approve Foreign Minister Ernesto Barros Jarpa's recent cautious statement that Chile is "non-belligerent" on the side of the U.S. What all Rightists chiefly want is to see internal splits healed along strongman. Rightist lines. And cold, hawk-nosed President Rios looked like their...
After a final five-and-a-half-hour wrangle between Argentina's waspish Eusebio Gomez, and the U.S.'s bland Carl Bernhardt Spaeth, Argentina's amendment was rejected (only Chile abstaining). With what grace it could, Argentina asked that its "reservations" be noted...