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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...
...last week he had many warm personal welcomes as he made his rounds. The important men he had to see included: Chile's Foreign Minister, Miguel Cruchaga Tocornal, formerly Ambassador to Washington, one of the wisest men in South American diplomacy, so discreet and so personally disinterested that the diplomats of other nations continually ask his aid and advice...
Upon Don Miguel Cruchaga, Chilean Ambassador to the U. S., strolling to his Embassy in a white linen suit, came Mrs- Fred Albert Britten, wife of the Congressman. Chortled she: "Why, Mr. Ambassador, you look like a glass of milk...
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