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Amid the barren, mud-colored hills surrounding Chile's Chuquicamata, stood last week a knot of enthusiastic newshawks. They had stopped off on their way home from a Pan-American Press Conference at Valparaiso for a gigantic entertainment specially staged for them by the world's largest copper mines. They were to see one of the world's largest explosions, the firing of 3,000,000 Ib. of dynamite...
...This is the most serious accident of its kind in Chile's history...
...they want Alexandretta, tomorrow it will be the oil fields of Mosul. The prairie fire of covetousness is spreading." ¶ After furious bickering for 90 minutes between Red Spanish Foreign Minister Julio Alvarez del Vayo, comparatively inexperienced in League ways, and that voluble Geneva veteran Dr. Augustin Edwards of Chile, the latter lost his point. This was to get on the agenda of the Council for discussion his demand that 6,000 Spanish Whites who have taken refuge in Madrid in the embassies and legations shall not be butchered by the Reds upon emerging but permitted to leave Spain "under...
...Padilla ordered some of his native palms and pines shipped to the U. S. Upon arrival in Manhattan they were quarantined by Department of Agriculture agents, sent on to Washington for inspection. From Washington last week, the Department of Agriculture ruled that Padilla must ship his exhibits back to Chile, the exhibition meanwhile having closed several weeks ago and the plants having died...
...service from taking alien wives. The order was in accord with the State Department's anxiety over heightening national animosities, which has caused widespread reshuffling of its representatives who seemed likely to be unduly affected by attachments in the lands of their assignments Italy, France, Brazil, Mexico, Belgium Chile, Ecuador, Peru, Portugal and Turkey have similar regulations against diplomatic marriages to aliens. But most informed observers traced the U. S. order's origin to the inconvenience to which Ambassador to France William Christian Bullitt was put during his Ambassadorial stay in Moscow...