Word: chileans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...stumps of his handless arms (mutilated by the Spaniards) over a group of prone Spanish soldiers, like a mad maestro leading an infernal symphony. Over his shoulders glared the faces of Revolutionists Francisco Bilbao (with beard) and Araucanian Chief Caupolican (with one blind eye). Behind them, clutching a Chilean flag, swayed the small figure of Chile's liberator, Bernardo O'Higgins. The two panels were connected by a broad ceilingful of abstract designs. Title of the whole: Death for the Invader...
Whether the eruptive scenes he had painted were the proper stuff to soothe Chilean children at their library tables; whether Chile's Government, in an anti-Marxist mood, might some day take a cue from Mexico's, and board them up, remained for the future to decide. One of Siqueiros' most famous murals, The Burial of a Worker, in Mexico City's National Preparatory School, has been hidden behind a board fence ever since...
...bright, auspicious weather on President Juan Antonio Rios' name day last week. In the red salon of the Moneda Palace he welcomed members of the Cabinet, chiefs of the Chilean armed forces, friends and school children, some of whom brought gifts. Among his name-day gifts one outshone all others: the official text of the Emergency Bill, giving Rios such power as few Presidents enjoy...
Trouble at Home. Besides, President Rios had more exclusively Chilean problems to think about. Victim of an acute war-born economic crisis, Chile suffers severe shortages in gasoline, tin plate, rubber, steel. Since 1941 the cost of living has gone up 39%. With no palliating wage increases, labor grows daily surlier...
Neutral Against Whom? Elated by the bill were pro-Axis landowners, with eyes still fixed on post-war markets, and Chilean industrialists, suffering from lack of U.S. export licenses. The Rios regime was turning out more Rightist than they had hoped. Senator Fernando Alessandri Rodriguez had whipped behind the President the full support of the Rightist Liberal Party. Semi-Fascist Falangists had begun to appear in key posts. Rightists were trying to get rid of Socialist ministers, one of the most pro-U.S. groups in Chile...