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...Three Illinois Republicans: Senator C. Wayland ("Curly") Brooks, isolationist pawn of Chicago Publisher Robert R. McCormick; billiard-bald, Throttlebottomish Congressman Stephen A. Day, who in 1941 said a U.S. war would mean "National suicide . . . and economic slavery"; blonde, blue-eyed Congresswoman Jessie Sumner, who calls herself a "Miss-Representative," and coins many a corny crack ("I may be an old maid but I want to be the mother of my country...
When U.S. Under Secretary of State Sumner Welles caused an international incident by accusing Chile of harboring Axis agents (TIME, Oct. 19), he did so with full documentary evidence. That evidence was made public last week by the Montevideo Inter-American Emergency Committee for Political Defense of the Hemisphere. The story...
Tense, troubled Chile seemed to be moving toward a break with the Axis. Sumner Welles's bald statement that both Argentina and Chile were harboring Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19) had made the nation tenser, more troubled. The outsize staff of the German Embassy in Santiago was obviously doing more than shuffling papers. Last week Chile's big, greying President Juan Antonio Rios called his Cabinet to the Moneda Palace and presently the Cabinet resigned in a body, "to leave the President absolute liberty of action...
...When Sumner Welles thrust a cool, straight blade at Argentina and Chile last fortnight for tolerating Axis spies (TIME, Oct. 19), he must have expected resentful parrying by the Governments of those countries...
Underneath the diplomatic surfaces, Sumner Welles's straight talk was probably taken in very good part by the Argentine majority, despite their Government. And the Argentine Government was careful to describe the situation as an "episode," rather than an "incident." This week mass meetings in various cities indicated that Chileans were choosing sides and Santiago's evening tabloid, Ultimas Notidas, went so far as to say the government might decide to resign. Various Good Neighbors had already come to Sumner Welles's support. Brazil, Venezuela and Colombia were all reported working for Chilean-U.S. understanding. President...