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...banks to satisfy a $2,515 commercial debt. Enraged Brazilians, who regarded the suit as an affront to their national honor, had calmed down by the time the loan came. In one stroke the Eisenhower Administration had stolen the play from Juan Perón's visit to Chile (see below), and scored a clean-cut success in foreign policy...
Argentina's Juan Perón summoned his Congress into special session last week to vote him permission* to visit Chile later this month as the guest of his old friend and fellow general, President Carlos Ibáñez. During the seven-day trip, Perón expects to visit Santiago and Valparaiso, and to sign a treaty trading Argentine steers for Chilean copper...
...Juan Perón is not planning his first presidential trip outside the country merely to barter with a neighbor. Like Perón himself, Chile's new President is in favor of forming a Latin American economic bloc to give Latinos a better bargaining position in exchanging their raw materials for U.S. manufactured goods. Perón hopes to reach a firm understanding with Ibáñez, then sign up other republics...
Will Perón also try to put over his old plan for uniting Argentina and Chile in a customs union? Chilean Publisher Luis Rodríguez, returning last week from Buenos Aires, said Peron told him: "I believe it is time for Argentina and Chile to form a political and economic federation." When Rodriguez gingerly mentioned that many Chileans fear that the Argentines would try to dominate such a partnership, Perón guffawed: "In order that this ideal should become reality, I would be willing to let Chile annex Argentina...
True, the History Department has shown some awareness of South America. But its single full course, half on Latin America's colonial period, half on Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, is far from adequate. By limiting itself to the ABC countries, it overlooks dangerous (for the U.S. at least happenings in other South American nations, notably Bolivia and Peru; and being a history course which stresses incidents, not general trends, it cannot hope to studey the background and significance of contemporary events in South America...