Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, 80, onetime Chilean Ambassador to the U.S. (1926-27, 1931-32) and Foreign Minister (1932-37); after long illness; in Santiago, Chile. Cruchaga earned the nickname "Don Palomo" (Mr. Dove) for his peace efforts (he helped settle the Chaco War in 1935, arranged the resumption of diplomatic relations between Mexico and the Vatican after the religious persecutions of the late...
...Flushing Meadow the Chilean delegate rose last week in the U.N. Assembly session to take up a family tragedy. For 28 months, said Hernan Santa Cruz, young Alvaro Cruz, son of a former Chilean ambassador at Moscow, had been trying to take his Russian-born wife back to Chile (TIME, Nov. 17, 1947). The Russians had stubbornly refused to let her leave. Close to a thousand U.S., British and French husbands who had married Russian girls, said Santa Cruz, were in the same predicament. The Soviet decree forbidding Russian women married to foreigners to leave the country was a moral...
...more than the surplus material, originally worth $112,200,000, which the U.S. Army had rationed out to them at knockdown prices as low as 10? on the dollar after World War II. Of the total, the biggest amount ($20.3 million worth) went to Mexico, followed by Chile ($19.9 million), Brazil ($19.5 million) and Cuba ($15.6 million). Argentina got only $5.7 million...
...contrary, Argentine hit-&-run trading had damaged ties with these countries. Chile, for example, was trying to get along with less Argentine beef, and Uruguay without Argentine tourists. Even Paraguay, virtually an Argentine colony, was turning more & more to Brazil. Brazil herself, Argentina's best customer in Latin America, muttered angrily over the recent Argentine emergency decree blocking off all imports...
Meanwhile Argentine propaganda had sagged sadly. Sometimes this resulted from plain blunders. Last November an Argentine first secretary was charged with meddling in a military plot in Chile and was hustled out of the country. Pushing diplomats, who "befriended" newspapers and radio stations in Rio, Mexico City and Havana, won few friends...