Word: gonz
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chile, President Gabriel González Videla, who came to power a year ago with Commie votes, last week asked his Congress to outlaw the party. He had already sent 600 leading Communists to the Chilean backlands, now had police out rounding up small...
Radios blared it, headlines screamed it, and the buses and trucks that carried jubilant Chileans into Santiago bore it as a legend: "The Antarctic Is Ours." Wind-bronzed President Gabriel González Videla was home from his flag-planting expedition to Graham Land (O'Higgins Land to Chileans) where he had defied the British lion (TIME, March 1). He had set off an explosion of Chilean patriotism, and made himself the most popular man in the country. In Santiago last week, 200,000 Chileans cheered him when he landed at the airport, shouted vivas as ponchoed huasos (cowboys...
From La Moneda's balcony, González Videla spoke to his countrymen massed in the Plaza Constitución below. Cried he: "Chile is obliged to denounce to its brothers of the Americas the threats of aggression by Great Britain, since this aggression is not only against Chile but against all American nations." Moreover, he said, there was one American brother who was not standing, four-square with the hemisphere. Gonzalez Videla meant the U.S., whose Secretary of State George Marshall had recently announced a "hands off" attitude toward both the antarctic and British Honduras...
Although Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
...other official had even mentioned the possibility of uranium in the desolate, blizzard-blasted Antarctic, and jaunty Gabriel González, no man to play down a story, was talking in part at least for the home folks. But if he proved to be right, the dispute over property rights on Deception and points south would become a dispute indeed...