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...Valparaiso warships of the U.S. and Argentina arrived with delegations to the inaugural of new President González Videla. He announced admission of three Communists to his Cabinet of eleven, the first Red invasion of this sort in Chilean history. The 1947 budget was cut from $221,000,000 to $203,000,000, chiefly at the expense of the departments of education, health and sanitation. Expenditures for military purposes were not seriously affected...
...Chileans, the Austrians of the Western world, the wittiest, the best-looking people on the continent, felt pretty good as spring came again. God, they also say, is a Chilean...
...grant you that a good number of the Chilean Catholics can hardly be classed as regular churchgoers, but in all fairness does that justify your labeling them as "freethinkers...
Sunday is racing day in Santiago, and no fooling. Winter & summer, wet or dry, thousands pile out to the plebeian Hipódromo in the morning, and, pausing only for a sandwich, migrate across town to bet away the afternoon at the slightly tonier Hipico. Earlier in the present Chilean winter, when lack of rainfall slowed hydroelectric plants and forced the capital to go on daylight saving time, fans sat stoically through the 8 a.m. race in utter darkness (newspapers suggested that the ponies carry lanterns...
Would Gonzalez' Communist pals force a change in Chilean foreign policy? No, answered Gonzalez. Chile would maintain its friendship with the U.S., would protect foreign capital and welcome more...