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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...
...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
...Gabriel González of Chile was not even listening. As the Presidente Pinto approached the Strait of Magellan, he radioed triumphantly: "It is possible there is uranium in the Antarctic. I am personally carrying many ore samples that I will have analyzed in Santiago...
...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...