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...Department's Under Secretary Sumner Welles, apostle of hemisphere unity, last week signed a Lend-Lease agreement in Washington. The agreement did not greatly improve Chile's actual prospects of getting needed industrial equipment while there is a shipping shortage (see p.27). But the general warmth of Chilean and U.S. relations moved stern, unsmiling President Juan Antonio Rios to make an extraordinary statement in Santiago: he came out for a fourth term for Good Neighbor Roosevelt. President Rios, now in his first (four-year) term, expressed the hope that President Roosevelt "will continue to head the Government...
...dull gallery walls were aflame with pictures of orange and crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
...color glimpses of South America with the cartoons, the picture is divided into four sequences. The first concerns tourist Donald Duck, camera in hand, clumsily cavorting around Peru. The second, Dumbo-like in organization, is the fable of a little mail-plane, Pedro, which has to fly over the Chilean Andes alone because his mother and father can't go. In the third, make-lead Goofy is whisked from his natural habitat on the American prairies down to the Argentine, where he dons a gancho costume and with his usual grace, assumes the role of the South American cowboy...
...easy step for Chile. In his broadcast to the nation President Ríos warned: "Destiny may drive us to days of sacrifice and trial. We shall face them with the strong temper of Chilean character and the certitude that [they] are the price of the defense of democracy and the future of the country's honor." Chileans remembered how last November he had told them that breaking with the Axis would be tantamount...
...action by a week. Robust old (74) Arturo Alessandri, three-time President and "Lion of Tarapacá," rallied the opposition parties of the Right, brought forth a manifesto asking for a plebiscite on the issue. Perhaps the most vigorous and picturesque bourgeois liberal in half a century of Chilean politics, Alessandri succeeded in provoking a new storm of discussion. But the Government prudently declared a plebiscite unconstitutional. A Congress majority, from Radicals through Democrats to Conservatives, was for the break. The Lion of Tarapacá's roar turned out to be neutrality's swan song...