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...week approach the climax of its long drift toward rupture with the Axis. Dr. Morales had conferred with the U.S., had spent three days consulting Chile's neighbor Government, Argentina, its last partner in neutrality. Now he would tell the Cabinet what he had learned. Then Foreign Minister Joaquín Fernández Fernández would report to the Chilean Senate, asking advice on future foreign policy. Finally a choice, so long deferred, would be made: either neutrality apart from the United Nations, or a diplomatic break with the Axis...
...ITCHING PARROT-Jose Joaquín Fernández de Lizárdi-translation & introduction by Katherine Anne Porter -Doubleday, Doran...
...Mexican Thinker. Joaquín de Lizárdi, the author of the Parrot's adventures, wrote only this novel, and did not even mean to do that. He was a political pamphleteer, and this fictional false-face for his ideas was his "last hope of outwitting the censorship, as well as of making a living by its sales. . . ." Serialized, it was suppressed at the eleventh chapter, published in full after his death...
What was happening to the 16,000,000 as the Japanese poured in? There was sparse news to give the U.S. a clue. In Washington, Joaquín Miguel Elizalde, Philippine Resident Commissioner, admitted that he was perplexed at the reports that came from the islands. Boyish, athletic Mike Elizalde gave up his suite at the Shoreham Hotel and took modest living quarters on the fourth floor of the redbrick Philippine Commonwealth Building. For Mike Elizalde, as for all Filipinos to greater or lesser degree, the change meant a test of the Filipino character as it has not been tested...
...Hollywood quickie expert would envy the average Mexican budget of $25,000 to $30,000 for a feature. Favorites such as the three Soler brothers (Fernando, Domingo and Julian), Joaquín Pardave, "Caninflas" (Mario Moreno) consider themselves well-paid at $2,000 a picture. When a producer is ready to shoot he can hire a complete crew from the CTM union on a contract calling for 50% of the minimum union salaries to be paid during production, the remainder after distribution. In addition, the crew gets 33% of the net profits. The films almost bank themselves...