Word: chiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...outbreak of the Spanish Civil War, Mariquita and Jaime were natural Loyalists. Their mother favored Franco. She made no attempt to reach the children, even when they fled Franco's approach, first to Chile and then to Argentina...
...Chile ordered 23 separate investigations of Nazi activities...
...Rotary Clubs exist in 8 Latin American republics, but in most of them, with the possible exception of Chile and Colombia, Rotarians with Nazi sympathies are few. One good reason: Rotary International's bitter relations with Nazis in Europe, where Rotary Clubs have been generally suppressed. Suspect are some Rotary Clubs in Mexico, but Rotary harbors no Nazi hotspots in Cuba, Peru, Brazil. In Buenos Aires all but one pro-Nazi member resigned, on German Embassy orders after Douglas Fairbanks Jr.'s famed democracy speech...
...Chile not only carried out a Nazi roundup but considered opening trade parleys with Russian envoys seeking minerals...
Colombia reported the departure to Chile of Peter Paul von Bauer, who operated the German-owned Scadta Airline until it was seized by the Government last year. In Chile he did his best to ingratiate himself with Chilean authorities by presenting them with a German freighter which had been tied up in Valparaiso Harbor since the war began...