Word: os
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Stern, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos of Chile has been faced since his election in February 1942 with a chronic political crisis. His problem: to appease refractory, quarreling politicians of nine parties who cannot agree among themselves on what they want. His solutions: recurrent Cabinet reshuffles. His results: none...
...versatile group, the Glee Club sings a little bit of practically everything except the over-classical, and generally ends up with a medley of Harvard songs. Then everyone goes home, and the Communications S-Os can get back to work...
...Star-Spangled Banner. All parties, from Conservative to Communist, signed a joint manifesto urging popular acclaim for Wallace. The masses' answer: 25,000 Chileans cheered him in front of his residence in Santiago. Next day he addressed the Chilean Congress, warmly patted President Juan Antonio Ríos and Chile's Popular Front: ". . . Now the great masses [of Chile] advance toward a fuller liberty. Its people are on a revolutionary march to affirm this land as one of dignity of the human spirit. And this revolution should continue until man is freed from the oppression...
...some 2,000 Chileans gathered outside the Senate building in Santiago's Montt-Varas Square, the Senate voted 30-to-10 for a break with the Axis. When the result was announced, the crowd broke into the national anthem. That evening tough, silent President Juan Antonio Ríos conferred at length with his Cabinet at his summer home in a Santiago suburb. The next morning he put his signature on the rupture decree...
...easy step for Chile. In his broadcast to the nation President Ríos warned: "Destiny may drive us to days of sacrifice and trial. We shall face them with the strong temper of Chilean character and the certitude that [they] are the price of the defense of democracy and the future of the country's honor." Chileans remembered how last November he had told them that breaking with the Axis would be tantamount...