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Carlos Guillermo Dávila is a Chilean newspaperman who became an Ambassador, once (in 1932) served for three months as President of Chile. When Chilean Army airmen threatened to drop bombs on the President's palace, Dávila resigned. He has lived in Manhattan ever since...
...exile is Newsman Dávila. He is a sort of unofficial Chilean Ambassador, through his Editors Press Service, Inc. makes big medicine for Franklin Roosevelt in Latin America. Last week Carlos Dávila was on his way back to Chile in a U. S. Army bomber. With him went his wife. Herminia Arrate de Dávila...
...months ago Señora Dávila fell ill, had one operation, then another. Physicians told her that her best hope for recovery was to return to Chile. Last week in Chile it was summer, and the warm sun of her native land might strengthen Senora Dávila's waning vitality. But she could not stand a long sea voyage, or the comparatively slow flight by Clipper...
Diplomacy had one other interest in the Henderson copper deal this week. Chile is afraid of great British Rhokara and Katanga mines in Africa, whose lower labor costs enable them to produce for as little as 2½?a pound. To protect Chile against being crowded by Africa in the new tariff-circumventing U. S. market, the British may recognize the U. S.'s special hemispheric relationship with Chile, agree to forget about the U. S. market...
Even the U. S.'s high-cost producers may eventually have their day. The Henderson plan is to treat them as a last reserve against the day when U. S. copper consumption rises to something like 1,500,000 tons, or when war in this hemisphere makes Chile look too distant. In such an emergency, Henderson would negotiate individual contracts with the small fry at around 14? a pound. But the posted price for big-league copper would stay where...