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...correspondents in South America watch like hawks the movements of stout, well-fed Baron Edmund von Thermann. German Ambassador to Argentina. But last fortnight he gave them the slip. He suddenly turned up in Santiago, Chile. Even the Chilean Foreign Office was caught off base; it barely had time to get an official to the airport to greet the Ambassador. Baron von Thermann blandly explained that he was traveling unofficially, was on his way to the Chilean lake country for a vacation. He carried a very heavy suitcase...
Last week, before 300 carefully chosen guests who included Chile's top-ranking Government and Army officials, Baron von Schoen showed the contents of Baron von Thermann's suitcase: the German Army film, Victory in the West...
Reasons why Chile had been the first country in the Western Hemisphere so to be honored were not hard to find. Chile is far from the U. S. It commands the strategic Strait of Magellan. It is an important source of copper and nitrates. It has South America's only Popular Front Government, with concomitant Rightist dissatisfaction. It contains South America's oldest, most firmly established German minority (in the southern lake country, where Baron von Thermann went on his vacation). And Chile's extreme Rightists think highly of Chile's fascist-minded onetime President General...
...does something Germany dislikes. Nonetheless, Latin America was enthusiastic over passage of the bill. Cuba and Costa Rica sent congratulations to the U. S. Congress. In Panama and Nicaragua newspapers praised the Act. In Montevideo El Dia called it a triumph for Britain's cause. In Chile satisfaction was mixed with concern over the threat to Chile's long coast line, if the U. S. should go to war with Japan. Argentine newspapers were enthusiastic, but most of them forgot their enthusiasm when they learned that in Washington the House Appropriations Committee had refused to buy Argentine corned...
Died. Señora Herminia Arrate de Dávila, wife of Carlos Dávila, onetime president of Chile and Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., who upon President Roosevelt's intervention last December was flown from Manhattan to her Chilean home in a U. S. Army bomber; in Santiago...