Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...When Chile elected González President last year, Communist votes gave him the margin of victory. To show his gratitude, he named three Communists to Cabinet posts. But middle-of-the-road González soon tired of playing footie with the Reds. When Communists took potshots at his administration, he angrily shouted: "The Communists cannot separate me from the people," accused them of treachery, threw them out of the Government...
...took office, he suspected his Communist allies. Acting on a tip from Buenos Aires, Government agents put a watch on Yugoslav Minister to Argentina, General Ljubomir Ilic, who came to represent Marshal Tito at González' inauguration. When Andres Cunja, a Yugoslav long resident in Chile, was named chief of the Tito diplomatic mission in Santiago, agents followed him, too. González kept quiet about what they reported...
That night González' press secretary called in newspapermen. The Government statement noted the rebirth of the Comintern, accused Cunja of plotting against Chile's independence and meddling in its internal affairs. Visitor Jakasa was pictured as an instruction-bearer from the Yugoslav Minister in Buenos Aires...
...Yugoslavs, said the Chilean Government, were key agents of the new Communist International. Furthermore, the Communist party's Latin-American section was out to persuade Latin countries to join the Soviet bloc, attack the continental defense policy. Direction of this ambitious scheme came, Chile said, from headquarters in Buenos Aires and Rosario, Argentina...
...next move was Yugoslavia's. Belgrade broke diplomatic relations with Chile, said it could not do business with a country whose foreign policy was dictated by an outside power (meaning the U.S.). Santiago gave it right back, said the break was O.K., pointedly added that the only Yugoslav official in Chile had already left the country...