Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...General Luis Alberto de Herrera, the oppositionists became obstructionists. Some were pro-Ally, some were pro-Axis (and were glad that nearby Argentina and Chile still maintained Axis relations), but all the Herreristas were anti-Baldomir. They used Uruguay's grant of air and naval bases to the U.S. as a political football. Last week, when Baldomir's supporters were dozing, they sneaked through the Senate a 10-to-6 vote censuring the Government policy of continental solidarity and hemisphere defense...
With full ceremony, mediators from Argentina, Brazil, Chile and the U.S. took over control of El Oro Province on the coast, which had been in Peruvian hands since last summer's fighting (TIME, Sept. 1), and turned it over to representatives of Ecuador...
With this smashing victory, it seemed certain that the new President would press for breaking relations with the Axis. The day before the election it was reported that Chile's Foreign Minister Juan Bautista Rossetti, sensing which way the Chilean wind was blowing, had the same idea in mind...
Senhor Aranha, U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles, Argentina's Foreign Minister Enrique Ruiz Guiñazú, Chile's Juan Bautista Rossetti, Peru's gaunt-jowled Alfredo Solf y Muro and Ecuador's pink-cheeked Julio Tobar Donoso, each to his own taste, drank up. Still rumpled and tired, the six men filed out to a bronze-studded table in the Itamaraty Palace's Saláo de Baile and before glaring camera lights and sleepy-eyed newsmen signed a protocol which settled-after 113 years of intermittent border warfare-the last major...
Bolivar's great contemporary and rival, San Martin, the Liberator of Argentina and Chile, was also in exile, also embittered, but expressed himself more philosophically. "You don't seem to know," he remarked to a friend who blamed him for leaving politics to tend his garden, "that two-thirds of the inhabitants of this earth are idiots, the rest criminals...