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Naturally U. S. financiers approve the activist, acquisitive qualities of Chileans, and have dealt hugely and profitably with nearly all of Chile's able and kinetic dictators. The last of these,' Colonel Carlos Ibanez who is only incidentally President of Chile, has cleverly adopted the Anglo-Saxon technique of calling his opponents "Communists" and dealing with them as though they were desperadoes. For example the Dictator deported as "dangerous reds" (TIME, March 21, 1927) a venerable judge of the Chilean Supreme Court and several financiers who opposed his views...
Geographically it is interesting that Santiago. Chile, on the West Coast of South America, is due south of Boston, on the East Coast of North America. In other words the whole South American Continent lies thousands of miles farther East than most U. S. citizens would guess...
Racially Chileans are extremely pure, far purer than the people who seethe in the famed U. S. melting pot. Emigration to Chile has been negligible for centuries. Therefore the nationalism of Chile is like that of Prussia or France, concentrated, organized and militant...
...international politics the position of Argentina is most advanced. So long ago as 1902 Argentina and Chile were the first nations to sign a treaty binding each other to compulsory arbitration of all disputes. Cannon fired during previous Argentine-Chilean wars and skirmishes were then melted up and cast into a mighty statue: The Christ of the Andes (see Map). On the South American Continent this likeness of the Saviour with Cross is no less esteemed than North America's Liberty with Torch...
...Chile has robbed Bolivia of her corridor to the sea (see above) and Nature has perfected Bolivia's woe by dividing the country into two mismated parts. Her lowlands of orange groves and palms are abundant; but almost totally inaccessible from her enormously high plateaux rich in tin. Without borrowing more than she can now borrow it would be impossible for Bolivia to link her highlands and lowlands by rail. As matters stand the problem of transportation is solved by such primitive means that three out of every four employed Bolivians work as carriers. Even so Bolivia...