Word: videla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Radios blared it, headlines screamed it, and the buses and trucks that carried jubilant Chileans into Santiago bore it as a legend: "The Antarctic Is Ours." Wind-bronzed President Gabriel González Videla was home from his flag-planting expedition to Graham Land (O'Higgins Land to Chileans) where he had defied the British lion (TIME, March 1). He had set off an explosion of Chilean patriotism, and made himself the most popular man in the country. In Santiago last week, 200,000 Chileans cheered him when he landed at the airport, shouted vivas as ponchoed huasos (cowboys...
From La Moneda's balcony, González Videla spoke to his countrymen massed in the Plaza Constitución below. Cried he: "Chile is obliged to denounce to its brothers of the Americas the threats of aggression by Great Britain, since this aggression is not only against Chile but against all American nations." Moreover, he said, there was one American brother who was not standing, four-square with the hemisphere. Gonzalez Videla meant the U.S., whose Secretary of State George Marshall had recently announced a "hands off" attitude toward both the antarctic and British Honduras...
Although Chile will demand a hearing on Antarctica at the Bogota conference this spring, González Videla intended to handle things in his own direct-action way . for the time being. With Bogotá-bound Pascual la Rosa, Argentine Foreign Office big shot, he signed an accord for a common front against Britain and negotiation of disputed Argentine-Chilean claims in the polar regions...
...mile trip back from Greenwich Island and Graham Land was; rough and uncomfortable. Polar gales churned the iceberg-haunted seas until the transport Presidente Pinto ran for shelter among the rainswept islands north of Cape Horn. But Chile's far-faring President Gabriel González Videla was in high spirits. His voyage to nail down Chilean Claims to Antarctic territories also claimed by the British had made him the most popular man in his country...
President Gabriel González Videla is an energetic man who likes to go places and do things, usually decides to go and do them on the spur of the moment. In a little more than a year in office, he has flown to Rio and Buenos Aires, swum ashore from a capsized rowboat on a south Chilean lake, and crash-dived aboard a U.S. submarine off Valparaiso. In his fancy presidential DC-3, he has visited so many local fairs that Chileans are sure his travels already exceed those of all his predecessors put together. Their nickname for their...