Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost all patience with Argentina, withdrew Ambassador Norman Armour from Buenos Aires, where he had had no official relations with the Government since the accession of President Farrell. Britain obligingly followed suit. So did most of the Latin American nations. Argentina found herself in diplomatic quarantine, recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador among Hemisphere nations...
...tone of hurt dignity, the Argentines offered to appear before the assembled Hemisphere, allow themselves to be judged. They deplored the present disunity, with their Government recognized only by Chile, Bolivia, Paraguay and Ecuador. They claimed to have fulfilled their obligations to Pan American cooperation...
...Chile's Senate was in for a long spell of entertaining roars and rhetorical man-eating last week. "The Lion of Tarapaca" was back...
...Lion is thick-maned Arturo Ales-sandri, 76, Chile's most formidable orator,* and its President from 1920 to 1925 and from 1932 to 1938. Fortnight ago he was elected Senator from Talca...
...alarmed opponents had already dreamed up a series of events that might make Alessandri President of Chile. Not wishing to take precedence over an ex-President of Chile, the president of the Senate might resign. The evenly divided Senate might then elect Alessandri to take his place. Some day harried President Rios might also resign. That would give the Minister of the Interior Presidential power. But he might not feel up to bearing "The Lion of Tarapaca. "If he resigned, Alessandri, as president of the Senate, would automatically take his place. That would practically insure Alessandri's election...