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The Ypsilanti Daily Press
Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County, Michigan
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Chile's President Juan Antonio Rios stated readiness to break relations with Axis powers if necessary to aid democracies, while emphasizing caution due to costs and defense needs. He rejected foreign troops on Chilean soil and denied secret isolation pacts.
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Santiago, Nov. 24 - INS - Chile today stood ready "to break off relations with the Axis powers if it becomes necessary" in order to aid the cause of the democracies. This pledge was made in a press statement by Pres. Juan Antonio Rios which declared his country is "solidly behind the United States and other nations of the Western Hemisphere".
But the statement added a cautious note with the declaration that "it would be senseless to provoke war with the totalitarian powers unnecessarily."
Such a step, President Rios pointed out, would involve expenditures of millions of pesos, and Chile does not have such sums at the present time.
He called attention to the long coastline that Chile must defend and in this connection made the flat assertion that his country would never permit foreign troops to establish bases on Chilean soil "even under the pretext of defending us".
President Rios has no intention of reviving plans to visit the United States, the statement added, unless personal talks with President Roosevelt should become indispensable.
He described as "utterly false" reports that Chile and another nation (obviously Argentina) had made a secret pact to maintain a policy of isolation.
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Santiago, Chile
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Nov. 24
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pledge to break relations with axis if necessary; cautious note on avoiding unnecessary war due to financial constraints; rejection of foreign troops on chilean soil; denial of secret pact with another nation.
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President Rios issued a press statement affirming Chile's solid support for the United States and Western Hemisphere nations, ready to sever ties with Axis powers if needed, but warned against provoking war unnecessarily given defense costs and long coastline. He opposed foreign bases on Chilean soil and dismissed reports of a secret isolation pact.