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...that for 68 days the U.S. waited with bated breath while she raced against time: she had completed her shakedown cruise in the Pacific in time to start a 14,700-mile dash to the Atlantic to fight the Spanish Fleet. She almost foundered in the storm-racked Magellan Strait. She had no time to have her boiler cleaned, her bottom scraped. And she arrived off the Cuban coast just in time to wade into the Battle of Santiago...
Argentina. From South America's stronghold of isolationism, despite earlier fears of noncooperation, came strong assurances that Argentina would stand by her Havana Convention commitments (defining aggression against one American nation as aggression against the others). Chile and Argentina debated retirement of an agreement whereby the Strait of Magellan was to remain demilitarized perpetually...
Chile, major stockholder in South America's 5,093-mile Pacific coast line, readied a cruiser, an escort of submarines and a submarine mother ship for patrol of the coast and the Strait of Magellan...
Chile. Most detailed of Gunther's chapters are on the ABC countries-Argentina, Brazil, Chile. Chile controls the Straits of Magellan, and most of the Germans in Chile liye within easy troublemaking distance of them. These Germans are "the most typical German colony in the Americas. . . . Here a powerful race-conscious group of native-born and Chilean Germans live like Germans in The Reich." The Chilean Army was German-trained for more than 20 years and deputies in the Chilean Congress recently charged that 95% of its officers are pro-German. The "semi-militarized" police are also German-trained...
...Only Argentina and Chile delayed action, but in Argentina, where there are 16 Axis ships, a bill ordering their confiscation was before the Chamber of Deputies. The Chilean Navy started hunting for a launch that was reported refueling a German raider somewhere near the Strait of Magellan...