Word: chileanizing
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...distinguished Chilean who recently visited the U.S. and England wrote a New York friend about his country as he found it when he went back home...
...making a better world which the Anglo-Saxons had communicated to me have wasted away, dissolved, day by day disappeared after contact with everything here: the people, the way of life, the climate, the food, the skepticism, the sun, the mountains. Nobody believes in anything. The crafty huaso [the Chilean cowboy] who distrusts everything and everybody is today the Chilean type...
...with all this, the Chilean has many good qualities, which don't operate. In the first place, he has a good critical sense: each one of them knows that what I am telling you is the truth, but they don't have the nerve to yell it out. The Chilean has a sense of his political responsibility, which makes Chile the country with the most public opinion in South America. But it acts only in the abstract...
...diplomats in South America kept the cables hot. But at least one was caught off guard. When Chile seemed on the point of welcoming Argentina's new anti-U.S. government, the State Department frantically tried to get in touch with its Chilean Embassy. But sad-eyed Ambassador Claude G. Bowers, 65, who has not bothered to perfect his Spanish during eleven years as a diplomat in Spain and South America, could not be reached.* He was off in the country, relaxing on a long, leisurely weekend...
...note which he "was most happy to deliver." His Government declared that the Farrell regime was legal, required no new recognition. The hemisphere front was also a flop, cracked by a supposedly friendly, democratic country to which the U.S. had confidently looked for support. Cheering Argentine nationalists surrounded the Chilean Embassy, waited for other Latin nations to follow Chile's example. Chileans waited for angry repercussion in their own country...