Word: valdivia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...menace, some Chileans feared, was nearer home. They muttered darkly about reactionary elements in their own country which might welcome Argentine help in overthrowing their democracy. The iron and coal in southern Chile were a tempting plum to Argentine militarists eager to promote their armament program. And around Valdivia was Chile's incompletely assimilated colony of Germans, not all of whom Chileans trust...
...misfortune which can happen to them." Because Librarian MacLeish conceived American Story as the account of the settlement of America, North and South, his chronicle joins the two continents. Last week, for instance, he gave Governor William Bradford's record of the founding of Plymouth and Pedro de Valdivia's record of the establishment of Santiago, Chile, by the Spaniards. Says MacLeish: "I think one reason the Americas find it so difficult to get along, one with the other, is that we don't understand our common background. From Alaska to the tip of South America, every...