Word: chile
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...carabineers gave each jeweler "compensation" in the form of a receipt which he could cash in paper pesos. Thus swank Weil's received a bit of paper on which a carabineer had scribbled "350,000 pesos." Marching bands of well-fed unemployed hailed "The First Socialist Government of Chile!" Plaintively Don Victor Navarrete, Minister of Public Works, complained, "The Government offices seem to be full of merely curious visitors," shooed out as many as possible...
Socialist Finance. To organize Don Carlos' promised Three Companies and put all Chile's unemployed to work will certainly take time. But a few hours sufficed the Davila Government to take over the Banco Central, organized as the sole Chilean bank of issue after Princeton Professor Edwin Walter Kemmerer, famed "Currency Doctor" was called to Santiago. Last week the Banco Central was rechristened Banco del Estado and Finance Minister Don Alfredo La Garrigue spoke of inflating the Chilean currency by 200,000,000 pesos "which would be gradually withdrawn." Next he got down to the serious business...
What this program was no one really knew except Don Carlos Davila who was suspected of making it up as he went along, feeling his way, testing the Great Powers which have a billion dollars invested in Chile to see what they would let him get away with, testing the Chilean populace to see what they would demand. Finally, however, Don Carlos handed to United Press this definite statement of his aims...
...government of Chile has two immediate objects...
These phrases describe the actual situation in Russia, not in Chile. In Chile, a land as long and slim as a string bean, the resources do not exist to defy World Capitalism. No battle fleet could seriously menace the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which sprawls over one-sixth of the earth, but a second-rate navy prowling up & down the Chilean coast could pulverize every city, town and hamlet...