Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Death came on cue, in the black hours before dawn. Bravura was there, too. Said the dying President of Chile to his Minister of Justice: "How should I die? On my stomach, on my side, or on my back?" For his War Minister he had a smart salute, then, "Adiós, General...
Whoever got the job, things could not get much worse in Chile. Ever since the nitrate market broke in the early '30s, both economic and political conditions had been chaotic. Alessandri's social legislation of the '20s, a model of its time, had proved no panacea. Ineptness and bickering had marked eight years of Popular Front rule; plans to cut up big estates and increase agricultural production had been balked by rightists who still controlled banks and social security funds. The present murderous inflation had spawned a new group of profiteering capitalists, cushioned the old ones...
Died. Juan Antonio Rios, 57, Chile's middle-of-the-road, opportunistic President (1942-46) who was elected with leftist support as a lesser evil than ex-Strong Man Ibáñez, under wartime stresses maintained a reasonable Right; of cancer; in Santiago (see LATIN AMERICA...
...turned away from empty-shelved butcher and bakery shops; if the Government acceded to Hoover's request for a 40% cut in local food consumption, it might well write its own downfall. By the time Hoover got to Santiago, he announced flatly that he expected no help from Chile...
...Russo-Argentine decision to kiss and make up caught Chile's Communists short. The day before the announcement, Santiago's Communist El Siglo damned Argentine "maneuvers to tie Chile to the train of a Nazi-Perón war." The day after, El Siglo praised Perón's democratic action, headlined: RELATIONS WITH RUSSIA WILL HELP ARGENTINA FREE ITSELF FROM IMPERIALISM...