Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...apply their laws exclusively against the Jews, directly or indirectly. [For example, in South America where the post-1933 immigration has swelled the Jewish population about 30%, Argentina will now admit Jews only if they have relatives in the country; Bolivia bars "Semitic elements"; Brazil admits few but Catholics; Chile, Bolivia and Colombia clamped down after illegal visa scandals.] The era of . . . mass immigration that brought 2,460,495 Jews to the U.S. alone during the years 1881-1941 is now at an end. Apparently no country is willing to receive immigrants of this category in any sizable number...
Copper. From the U.S. in 1938 she got 110,000 tons. She also got a lot from Chile until early this year. Her own production is about 85,000 tons a year...
...full text of the article: "For weeks the head of America's only Popular Front Government, Chile's President Pedro ('Don Tinto') Aguirre Cerda, has been on an uneasy seat in Santiago's grey, pillared Moneda Palace. Struggling for power have been members of the President's own Radical Party, Communists, Rightists, Germanophile Army officers...
Died. Pedro Aguirre Cerda, 62, President of Chile; of bronchial and lung congestion; in Santiago...
According to a late radio dispatch, public opinion in Chile and Uraguay demands that their governments declare war, not only against Japan, but also against the Germans and Italians. Brazil and Argentine recognized the gravity of the situation, but have taken no action...