Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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While delegates of the 21 American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...
...this Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco broke off diplomatic relations with Chile. The Spanish Foreign Ministry called Chile's Popular Front Government "anarchical" and declared that on June 17 "in the most central square in Chile . . . orators had the vileness grievously to insult Spain and its glorious Caudillo in a speech broadcast by the official radio and at which were present the President of the Republic and several Ministers...
Back of this lay an old irritation, the fact that ever since the Loyalist Government collapsed in Spain, Chile's Embassy in Madrid has given sanctuary to 13 Spanish Loyalists and refused to surrender them. A counter irritant was that poverty-stricken Franco has refused to pay for 100,000,000 pesos ($3,500,000) worth of Chilean nitrate and iodine...
Below the southern boundaries of Venezuela, Colombia and Ecuador the problems of the U. S. increase in direct proportion to the distance from Washington. Dominated by the ABC republics (Argentina, Brazil, Chile), this area lies beyond the zone of U. S. military and naval effectiveness, is consequently less willing to base its economic and political future on U. S. protection...
...Chile. Riddled with political disunity, honeycombed with Nazi propaganda, harassed by dwindling markets, Chile faced the conference with conflicting feelings. Within its Popular Front Government the Socialists expressed confidence in U. S. trade and defense plans, but the Communists promptly denounced them as "imperialistic...