Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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From La Moneda's balcony, González Videla spoke to his countrymen massed in the Plaza Constitución below. Cried he: "Chile is obliged to denounce to its brothers of the Americas the threats of aggression by Great Britain, since this aggression is not only against Chile but against all American nations." Moreover, he said, there was one American brother who was not standing, four-square with the hemisphere. Gonzalez Videla meant the U.S., whose Secretary of State George Marshall had recently announced a "hands off" attitude toward both the antarctic and British Honduras...
...occupy Belize and show that Guatemalan soldiers were useful for more than parades." Though President Juan José Arévalo promptly closed the paper for this insult to the army, the incident gave the British a fair reason for a show of strength. Argentina and Chile, which had been needling Britain in Antarctica (TIME, March 1), could be expected to take notice...
Guatemala hurriedly prepared to recognize both Chile's and Argentina's Antarctic claims, even though they overlapped. Argentine Tango Composer Enrique Dicépolas got a cable from Mexico City: "Word has reached here of the gallant posture you've assumed in front of the intransigent British lion. It pleases me to offer you the Mexican fleet if Argentina needs reinforcements to defeat the English wherever they may be found. Because what are we? Brave cats or miserable mice? At your service. Signed: Juan Charrasqueado [Scarface John-Mexico's man-in-the-street and currently...
...Penguins. British Minister of State Hector McNeil favored putting the controversy to the International Court at the Hague. Because Chile and Argentina based their claims chiefly on proximity and occupation, the British had a good case. They had sailed the Antarctic seas since 1773, whaled there, set up a formal government for part of the disputed area in 1908, and had organized more than half the expeditions ever sent into the Antarctic. Said the Manchester Guardian confidently: "Let Latin American oratory have its fling and the penguins applaud. It should be enough for us to put our case diplomatically...
Gabriel González of Chile was not even listening. As the Presidente Pinto approached the Strait of Magellan, he radioed triumphantly: "It is possible there is uranium in the Antarctic. I am personally carrying many ore samples that I will have analyzed in Santiago...