Word: neighborism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus did Chile last 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...
...proved himself a tough dictator, but one who was wise enough to see that if he were to bring his nation a voice in international affairs he must bring it out from isolationism. To this end he took an active part in League of Nations affairs, embraced the Good Neighbor policy, tightened Argentine bonds with Brazil...
...plot is wholesomely simple with Ann buying a collection of antiques including a ramshackle house where George Washington was said to have spent a night. Relations with a crotchety neighbor, a fraud of a rich uncle, are the stronger parts of the picture; and a slow-witted caretaker steals scenes from even the veteran lead. The tolerating Benny finally pays for putting the house shipshape, only to have the mortgage fall due. A sort of divinely arranged solution turns up quite timely and everybody goes off sufficiently happy. It kind of leaves the audience on the loose end of things...
...makes the position of all but the very top Washington politicos look like small change. A big war producer (including synthetic rubber) at home; in the thick of war itself abroad and on the high seas where it commands the largest private fleet in the world; deep in Good Neighbor policy, especially in Venezuela; snapped at by Thurman Arnold for its former connections with Germany's I. G. Farbenindustrie-Standard Oil is the most far-flung industrial empire U.S. enterprise ever put together. It is less a business than a public trust...
...bound to a good-neighbor policy for better or worse, there are two loser's choices: 1) divert more shipping to Central America-not a very likely possibility in view of Army needs; 2) try to work out some system, such as Britain last week was planning to do for her Caribbean colonies (Jamaica, Barbados, Trinidad, etc.). The British scheme includes buying up colonial products just as the U.S. is now buying Brazilian coffee and Peruvian cotton, and let the Caribbean countries use the cash for made-work projects such as road building and swamp clearance. Such a subsidy...