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...explorers have struggled on foot, by dog sled and by plane across this highest, windiest, iciest, most desolate of the seven continents. Against hardships which conquered the weakest and the unluckiest they won fame for themselves, large chunks of the frozen desert for their flags. Last week Chile found an easier way to share in the Antarctic Circle pie, cut itself a large slice by Government decree...
...muster a potential man power of 12,000,000. Fifteen of the 20 countries have air forces. The aggregate Latin-American navy consists of five battleships, six cruisers, 32 destroyers, 20 submarines, a scattering of gunboats, minelayers, river-patrol boats and coastguard cutters. But only Argentina, Brazil and Chile can patrol their own shores. . Closest Latin-American country to the U. S. is Mexico, whose west-coast ports and Tampico on the Gulf are possible spots of invasion. Its first line of defense is the U. S. Navy, for Mexico has only six escort vessels, ten coast-guard gunboats...
Discussing the political and social aspects of South America, Professor Clarence H. Haring '07 said last night that there are only four true democracies in South America--Chile, Argentina, Uraguay, and Colombia...
They were still able to laugh. These Germans, they said, are certainly inventive. First they flooded the world with "experts," incredible numbers of them expertising all the wray from China to Chile. Then they sent out "tourists"-40,000 of them supposedly rubbernecking in Spain right now. Then there were "refugees," leaving Bessarabia when Russia moved in and taking up strategic refuge all over the Balkans. Then there were "official photographers"-22 of them recently reported in full Nazi uniform in Bulgaria. And now "instructors." In order to instruct the Rumanians in the arts of combat, the Germans were said...
...western border of the Argentine Republic, next to Chile, lies the province of La Rioja (pop. 110,000). Fortnight ago La Rioja's legislature passed a bill setting up a strict press censorship. It banned publication of anything which the chief of provincial police may consider "subversive, seditious, obscene, immoral," or which "lowers, attacks or demerits the majesty of justice." Offending editors, publishers, distributors, even newsboys may be fined or jailed, and the law applies not only to La Rioja's own press, but to papers brought in from outside...