Word: chile
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...diplomatic grapevine last week spread the biggest piece of Pan American news since Franklin Roosevelt began exploiting the Good Neighbor policy: U.S. ambassadors had called on the Presidents of Chile, Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Uruguay and Paraguay, to present them with personal letters from the U.S. President suggesting that they declare war on the Axis...
Actually, the Latin countries were far from agreed. Several (including Uruguay, Chile, Cuba, Colombia, Venezuela and Ecuador) were in favor of granting Argentina a hearing. But all agreed to "go along with the majority." Diplomats looked long & hard to find a "majority." What they found was the U.S. State Department...
...country, and later married her. In Argentina, from 1939 until his recall, he rode the ups & downs of U.S. prestige like a veteran gaucho. In the years between, he was in Tokyo at the time of the Nanking incident, helped get the U.S. Marines out of Haiti, survived Chile's disastrous 1938 earthquake. His dispatches continued to be unruffled, incisive, informative...
Greatest increases over peacetime totals are to be found among China and the republics of South America. Argentina outnumbers the other Latin American delegations with 11. Colombia, Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Peru, and Guatemala follow as the list trails off to three students each from Panama and Urugday, two from Bolivia and Ecuador and an aggregate of nine from five islands of the West Indies...
Argentina's demand for a hearing would probably be lost in a maze of diplomatic acrimony. Mexico had already denied her plea. Chile, Ecuador, Colombia and Venezuela had consented-and had had their faces slapped by the U.S. State Department, which wants no open hearing. Many Latin diplomats believe that the system of inter-American consultation has been done to death; that the Good Neighbors were deeply divided, would split into fragments. In this sense, Perón had won again...