Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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President Juan Antonio Rios last week opened a troubled session of the Chilean Congress. Orderly lines of soldiers, orderly crowds saluted him on his way through Santiago's streets to the Congreso Nacional. But the situation confronting him in Congress was far from orderly. Chile, democratic island in predominantly undemocratic South America, was struggling with the problems of democracy...
...started his term, he was the brightest hope of South American democracy. But he did not push the urgent reforms demanded by the Leftist coalition which put him in power, showed more liking for conservatives than for Communists who had given him powerful support. He lost the confidence of Chile's Popular Front, failed to gain the complete confidence of his new friends on the Right. Result: turmoil. Rios, without a political majority, found it difficult to govern at all. Chile's numerous ills, notably including a rampant inflation, grew worse & worse...
Hope & Faith. The picture was not all black. Chile was sorely tried, but she showed no taste for the easy way out through dictatorship. She did not want to follow the Argentine example, surrender weakly to authoritarianism. Chile's tough, free people still looked to democracy for a solution of their particular democracy's troubles...
Hochschild was born in Biberach, Germany, son of a middle-class Jewish merchant. Trained as a mining engineer in Freiberg, he traveled all over the world. He worked in Spain, Australia, Chile, Peru, Brazil, Argentina. Sometimes he hoboed...
...Behn also reported another war-induced I. T. & T. bonanza: a mounting supply of U.S. dollar exchange building up in Latin America. Brazil and Chile, fat with dollars after many lean years, poured $1,425,494 of deferred debts into I.T.& T.'s coffers last year. Last week Sosthenes Behn was in Rio, preparing to back the new trend with more I. T. & T. millions for a skyscraper office building and a big new telephone factory. And in the Argentine, where the company controls 80% of the nation's telephone business, another new factory is almost completed...