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Divorced. By Helen Lee Eames Doherty Wessel, stepdaughter of the late multimillionaire utilitycoon Henry L. Doherty: Theodore William Wessel, former Danish Chargé d'Affaires in Santiago; seven years after marriage; in West Palm Beach. Her extravagant Washington debut in threadbare 1930 was the target of Congressional criticism; party favors for some of the guests were automobiles...
...dull gallery walls were aflame with pictures of orange and crimson plazas in Valparaiso and Santiago. Luis Herrera Guevara, a Chilean "primitive" painter of great splash & dash, was having his first U.S. exhibition, in Manhattan. He showed sailing boats in a topsy-turvy port, ornate buildings with leaning façades, a bus looking like an enlarged caterpillar, a self-portrait revealing a jaundiced gentleman with jet hair. Critics were enchanted. They could not fail to make comparisons with the pigmental innocence and charm of France's late, great "primitive" Henri "Douanier" Rousseau...
Chile last week chose the United Nations course. While 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...
...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...
...Juan Hill & Santiago, 1898, were not much as battles but they cast Spain out of the Western Hemisphere and indirectly got the U.S. the Philippines. U.S. casualties: 225 killed, 1.384 wounded at San Juan Hill; at Santiago one killed, one wounded...