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...different was the war experience of Chile. Her big exports were nitrates (essential for explosives) and copper, another important war necessity. After the first disruption of the War gave her a bad setback in the fall of 1914, she rode on the crest of the wave. Her Government, which depended largely on export duties, was flush. Her mines prospered. Her export balance, which amounted to $300,000,000 in 1913, jumped to over $1,500,000,000 in 1917. In the four years of the War her export balances reached...
Shanghai '37 is Novelist Baum's usual chile con carne ("her eyes went on a pleasure cruise up and down him"), seasoned with local color, a but-life-goes-on philosophy. Curtain sentence: "What must happen, happens." Thanks to Japanese bombs that fell on the Shanghai Hotel when war came, Author Baum's ending has more finality than usual...
...Coya, Chile...
Three weeks ago the victorious Franco Government refused free departure to 17 Loyalist refugees lodged in the Chilean Embassy in Madrid. Chile, now governed by a Popular Front government, got very wroth, and Argentina, El Salvador, Venezuela, Cuba, Uruguay and Mexico joined in demanding that the Generalissimo respect the old Hispanic custom of the right of asylum. Unhispanic indeed sounded the humane statement of the Chilean Foreign Office on the matter: the right of asylum is not a matter of politics, simply a humanitarian principle to avoid useless reprisals. Last week in Santiago, Chile let it be known that victory...
Madrid consulate and Chile had 2,000 in its Embassy. Both got stamping mad when the Loyalists demanded the refugees' surrender...