Word: chiles
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...League of Nations last week arrived in a unique situation. In quick succession Hungary and Albania resigned. The two countries acted not because of their own desires, but to suit the Axis powers. Last week Peru also resigned following the lead in recent years of Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Paraguay, El Salvador, Venezuela...
...Latin American Relations, is Lopez Cumarejo, the Colombian Ambassador to the United States. Also scheduled to attend and Dr. William Langer, Counsellor of the Pan-American Union in Washington; Shelden Chapin, of the Division of American Republics of the Department of State; and Colonel A. L. Palmer, of the Chile-American Association...
...student group announced that it hoped to establish in the future two scholarships each for Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Columbia and to extend them to other countries if the former proved successful...
...many parched survivors scooped their drinks from dirty ditches and contaminated wells. Puckish and unsated, the elements drove icy winds down from the Andes, and on the winds rode storm clouds which dropped on the shelterless, part-injured, part-naked, part-diseased population one of the most violent rainstorms Chile has ever...
...natural son of a Chilean mother and an adventurous Irish father, Ambrosio O'Higgins. Born plain Ambrose O'Higgins in County Meath, Father Ambrosio went to South America to seek his fortune and was so successful that he became the Spanish-appointed Governor of Chile. Son Bernardo was educated in Spain and England, returned to work, later fight, for Chilean independence at the side of South America's famed liberator, José de San Martin. In 1817 Bernardo O'Higgins became benevolent dictator of Chile's first independent permanent government...