Word: videla
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Next January, Argentina's Juan Perón and President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla of Chile will meet in the shadow of the Christ of the Andes, which was erected in 1904 to mark the peaceful solution of their boundary dispute. There they will sign a newer and more practical symbol of amity: the $175,000,000 trade agreement between Argentina and Chile completed last week in Buenos Aires...
...Moneda, Chile's White House, lively new President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla gave a big dance and reception. Invitations read "tails and decorations." Gonzalez Videla's old ambassadorial friend from Vichy, Admiral William D. Leahy, the vice presidents from Argentina, Peru and Brazil all turned up in their best bibs & tuckers...
Chile's new President enjoyed the military trappings, announced that he was all for keeping the fireworks-abroad. Questioned about the U.S. Army-sponsored Hemispheric Defense Plan (TIME, June 24). Gonzalez Videla said: "The armaments race has been one of the bad factors in Latin America. . . . We are too poor to bear the load and [we] need the money to raise [our] standard of living. As a Chilean and ... an American, I am, frankly, an enemy of over-arming...
...Valparaiso warships of the U.S. and Argentina arrived with delegations to the inaugural of new President González Videla. He announced admission of three Communists to his Cabinet of eleven, the first Red invasion of this sort in Chilean history. The 1947 budget was cut from $221,000,000 to $203,000,000, chiefly at the expense of the departments of education, health and sanitation. Expenditures for military purposes were not seriously affected...
President-elect Gonzalez Videla, who is no Communist, but who had Communist support and will probably include red-banner men in his Cabinet, got the good news at home while 60,000 backers cheered beneath his windows. He took the bows, then dined with his family and went to a movie. To Chileans, racked by hunger and inflation, Gonzalez Videla said: "Have confidence, you will not be betrayed...