Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...rupture with the Axis, as President Juan Antonio Ríos told his country last November, would be tantamount to declaring war and would mean real sacrifices for the nation's already hard-pressed economy. In Washington Dr. Morales had mentioned Chile's vulnerable, 2,800-mile long coastline, the danger to her lifeline of ships, the political difficulties arising out of her large colonies of Germans...
...they might expect from the U.S. Their President had told them that the country's honor would not permit Chile to ask for military assistance. So they looked forward to a period of suffering if they entered the war. But the Government was prepared. President Ríos last week signed the External Security Bill, which gave him full powers to break relations with the Axis. Almost the equivalent of a state of siege, the law, if invoked, would permit him to clamp down on all Axis nationals...
...Buenos Aires and Santiago there were insistent rumors that President Ríos was attempting to obtain joint action from stubborn Ramón S. Castillo's Argentine Government. In the Argentine capital observers noted signs that Castillo was planning a hasty trip to Santiago. That might also mean a last Argentine effort to keep Chile on the path of Argentina's "prudent neutrality." The issue was plain. At the Senate's session this week, Chile would have to choose...
...Hemisphere (set up by the Rio conference in January). But it went unsigned by representatives of the two countries which have not yet broken diplomatically with the Axis. Chile's delegate was absent. Argentina's abstained from voting. However, Chile's President Juan Antonio Ríos sent a personal message to Franklin Roosevelt, promising increased production of vital materials and control of Nazi propaganda and espionage, praising the African operations as "guaranteeing the security of this hemisphere...
...school will be restocked in two shifts. The first to come in will be a partially trained group from Cornell on Saturday; the second will be made up of new men and will enter Monday. These S-Os will be in communications only, since the indoctrination course has been discontinued here...