Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Latin Americans, keeping close to Assistant Secretary of State Nelson Rockefeller, hoped to swing some small changes in Dumbarton Oaks. Big guns were Mexico's suave Foreign Minister, Ezequiel Padilla, Chile's Joaquin Fernandez y Fernandez, and Brazil's Pedro Leāo Velloso. who brought along his imposing wife...
When fire broke out on two more nitrate-carrying steamers last week, two tenuous theories went up in smoke. Neither Japs nor Reds could be blamed for the plague of nitrate-ship fires (TIME, April 2) after Chile's cocky counter-espionage Departamento 50 nabbed the chief saboteur, a German named Julio Alberto von Appen Oestmann (alias Apfel), and turned him over for shipment...
...detained detonator, a marine inspector of the Hamburg-Amerika Line, became chief Nazi saboteur for Chile and Peru in 1939. Last month, when Chile took real steps toward war with Germany, he and his operatives glided into action with time bombs neatly plopped into the holds of nitrate ships. Their score to date: five ships fired, 102 lives taken...
Since the Chileans were still running Chile, the Communist theory got nowhere. But public resentment toward Germany and Japan might prove a big help to President Juan Antonio Rios. His recent declaration of a state of belligerency against the Axis comes before Chile's obstreperous Congress next week...
There would be logic aplenty for such dealings. Eastern expects to operate a postwar route from the U.S. to the Canal Zone, northern terminus of Panagra, which operates down the Andean-wrinkled west coast of South America to Chile, and over the hump to Buenos Aires. Such a hookup would give Panagra its long-sought entrance into the U.S., and give Eastern through connections on the short route to Latin America. Pan American Airways, which now ferries Panagra traffic between the U.S. and Balboa, could be bypassed...