Word: antonio
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile, which for some time has been reported to be, on the verge of a break with the Axis, President Juan Antonio Rios marked the Pearl Harbor anniversary with a message to President Roosevelt and the U.S.: "My country will be at the side of the democracies, defending the ideals of liberty and justice...
...Antonio the boards, overworked like many another and far behind their quotas, had to take one-eyed men, illiterates, expectant fathers, 4-F men with curable defects. Only remaining single men were over 45, or were farmers or key war-workers deferred only upon recommendation of hard-boiled reviewing boards. Los Angeles, 50% behind quotas, desperately sent for induction almost everybody who could walk, among them a father of eleven children. Worried to sleeplessness were war plants' personnel managers who had to replace critical workers-in August, September and October, Douglas Aircraft Co. lost 11,000 employes, some...
...President's messages of assurance to Portugal and Spain brought quick replies. Portuguese Minister Dr. Joao Antonio de Bianchi delivered his Government's answer: Portugal considered the American message "another proof of the unalterable and confident friendship existing between our two nations." From Spain's Fascist leader, General Francisco Franco (whose radio toned down its pro-Axis bias) came a letter...
...diplomatic smiles toward the U.S. Replying to President Roosevelt's assurances that the United Nations had no designs on their territory, Spain's Dictator Francisco Franco said he would avoid "anything which might disturb our relations in any of their aspects," and Portugal's President Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona spoke of "unalterable and confident friendship...
...Defense of the Hemisphere (set up by the Rio conference in January). But it went unsigned by representatives of the two countries which have not yet broken diplomatically with the Axis. Chile's delegate was absent. Argentina's abstained from voting. However, Chile's President Juan Antonio Ríos sent a personal message to Franklin Roosevelt, promising increased production of vital materials and control of Nazi propaganda and espionage, praising the African operations as "guaranteeing the security of this hemisphere...