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...politicos are more deft than wary old President Arturo Alessandri, "The Lion" who emerged triumphant from that spate of revolutions which gave Chile six Presidents in 18 months (TIME, Sept...
...openly arrived at by the U. S. Senate munitions investigation (TIME, Sept. 2). Last week Santiago quietly approved as "The Lion" got back at Washington with a shrewd thrust. Several U. S. aircraft firms were bidding against British rivals for contracts which will increase the strength of planes in Chile's Air Force by nearly...
When the bids were opened considerations of price apparently went by the board. On "technical grounds" the Chilean Government decided to buy British. At one clip some $500,000 worth of orders were lost to U. S. firms. As a minuscule sop, the Defense Ministry admitted that Chile probably will buy from the U. S. spare parts for the U. S. planes she already has and intends to buy several U. S. Fairchild airplane cameras. As delighted British salesmen stood drinks all around Chilean officers growled, "This may teach the damned Yankees a lesson...
Canada and Peru saw two Secretaries of State before they rose to office-Cardinals Merry del Val and Gasparri. In 1823 there arrived in Chile a priest named Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti. who was to become Pope Pius IX ("Pio Noro"). In Buenos Aires wise Catholics will gaze speculatively on the austere features of Cardinal Pacelli, for he will undoubtedly be a man to be reckoned with when the present Pope, now 77, dies and the Princes of the Church gather in the Sistine Chapel to elect a successor...
...swaggering, dynamic President Carlos Ibafiez had been "the Chilean Mussolini" for two years and both his regime and his treasury seemed rock-ribbed. Two years later the Ibafiez Dictatorship blew up and Ulen & Co. wrote in their Report to Stockholders: "The work on contracts for the Republic of Chile was suspended in 1931, due to the inability of the clients to furnish funds for their continuance...