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This situation, however, was no embarrassment to Dictator Benavides. for of the 21 "democracies" represented at the Conference, only nine-U. S., Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Costa Rica, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama and Uruguay- could be defined as States under popular rule. Said Strong Man Benavides, with more subtlety than he perhaps intended: "We cannot offer you, on as grand a scale as some of the other American nations, the harmonious spectacle of a great city that could shelter you as could other capitals. But we do claim your attention to the evolutionary processes of our nationality...
Cordell Hull and his chief's Good Neighbor Policy have notably softened Latin American distrust of the U. S., but the eve of Lima showed that they have by no means removed it. Well organized last week was opposition by the ABC powers (Argentina, Brazil, Chile) and other nations to confirming at Lima the proposals for a Little League of Nations and Little World Court, which Colombia and the Dominican Republic introduced out of friendliness to the U. S. at Buenos Aires two years ago. And toward Franklin Roosevelt's program for Continental Solidarity against Fascism, Latin American...
...Harvard ski team, captained by William H. Hinton '41, is inaugurating a new season next Tuesday evening at 5 o'clock in Kirkland House Common Room. Movies of the 1936 Olympics and the Dartmouth ski team's trip to Chile will be shown through the courtesy of Ted Hunter, team member and Olympic skier. Alec Bright '19, founder of Harvard skiing, is expected to be there...
Some 41% ( of the Chilean people make their living off the land, yet 60% of the arable ground is owned by fewer than 600 families. To the hacendados (landowners), Chile's ruling class, Candidate Ross is "the ablest financier on the continent" because, as Finance Minister under President Alessandri, he was able to hoist Chile from the World Depression and a private slump of her own without further burdening the huge land holdings...
...last moment Chile's ineffective Nacistas (Nazis), angered because their candidate was jailed as an "extremist'' after an abortive Nazi uprising month ago, spurned a logical tie-up with the rightist parties and threw in their lot with the Popular Front...