Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...U.S.S.R. is recognized by Mexico, Colombia, Cuba, Uruguay. Friendly gestures have been made by Brazil and Chile...
...authorities in London and Latin America doubted that Britain would actually go very far on this road, suggested that her investments in Argentina (?387,000,000) were too great, her trade too important to jeopardize. There were other weapons than embargo. A U.S. threat to further arm Brazil and Chile might undermine the "Colonels' Clique." Large credits to set up competing industries in the same countries might frighten Argentine industrialists. Even so, the State Department, without assured British assistance, had reason to pause before taking any measures against Argentina...
Help came quickly. From all over Argentina, doctors and nurses rushed to San Juan. Soldiers dug in the ruins for trapped survivors. Army airplanes brought supplies. Chile sent what help she could. The U.S., at odds with Argentina diplomatically, offered help through the American Red Cross...
Such is the type of regime which threatens to spread to other Latin countries. Notably endangered is uneasy, inflated Chile (TIME, Jan. 10) which still fears a military revolt, backed by Argentina and possibly led by ex-President Carlos...
...even tried to do to stem the immediate effects of inflation. He has abundant powers, recently augmented by a long-pending economic-control bill. But he has hesitated to offend any loud, well-organized pressure group such as the landowners (Farm Bloc) or the middlemen (Little Business). Should Chile turn out to be another feeding ground for Fascism, part of the blame must rest upon democrats who failed to keep Chile's democracy strong...