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...another point Ashley-Montagu and Hrdlicka presented divergent evidence to reach an important agreement: Hrdlicka declared the evidence from old bones and pots is now conclusive that the long-disputed theory that the American Indians came from Asia via Bering Strait is indeed correct. Ashley-Montagu added evidence of a new sort: analysis of blood types...
...Latin-American Republics, through eight years of patient policymaking, has been common action in common cause against common enemies. Last week, within 24 hours of the U.S. seizure of German and Italian ships in U.S. ports (TIME, April 7), there was hell & high water from Tampico to the Strait of Magellan...
...Only Argentina and Chile delayed action, but in Argentina, where there are 16 Axis ships, a bill ordering their confiscation was before the Chamber of Deputies. The Chilean Navy started hunting for a launch that was reported refueling a German raider somewhere near the Strait of Magellan...
...Strait of Gibraltar the four Vichy freighters and their destroyer kept as much as possible in Spanish waters as they sailed past Britain's fortress. As the convoy entered the Mediterranean the British gave chase but did not open fire. Presently the screech of projectiles began, not from the Vichy destroyer but from coastal batteries in French Algeria. Were they manned by Nazis or by Frenchmen? The British could not be sure, but their ships opened up and shelled the shore batteries. The French convoy put on speed and ducked into Nemours in Algeria. As the British ships...
Reasons why Chile had been the first country in the Western Hemisphere so to be honored were not hard to find. Chile is far from the U. S. It commands the strategic Strait of Magellan. It is an important source of copper and nitrates. It has South America's only Popular Front Government, with concomitant Rightist dissatisfaction. It contains South America's oldest, most firmly established German minority (in the southern lake country, where Baron von Thermann went on his vacation). And Chile's extreme Rightists think highly of Chile's fascist-minded onetime President General...