Chile Follows Brazil In Breaking With Russia

Greymouth Evening Star, 23 October 1947, Page 8

Chile Follows Brazil In Breaking With Russia

, SANTIAGO (Chile), October 21. Chile tonight broke off diplomatic relations with Russia and Czechoslovakia. Chile, in a Note to Russia announcing the break, said she could not maintain relations, with a country “which has inspired such grave attempts against her and which has endangered the life of the nation.”

The break with Czechoslovakia came as a complete surprise, since there had been no previous indication of tension between the- two countries.

A Chilean Government official, said that the. severance, of. relations with Russia and Czechoslovakia was “intimately related with Communist infiltration” in the nation, in the southern coal zone. Tonight’s developments came shortly after President Ginzolez Videla had announced that -he intended to end once and for all “the Communist dictatorship.” over Chile’s, mine workers.

The United Press'correspondent at Santiago says thM the' almost simultaneous breaks with Russia by Brazil and. Chile, and the fact that the. head of the’ Argentine diplomatic, mission has left* Moscow, ostensibly to tour Europe, appear to bear oiit. persistent reports that the three Latin American Powers are adopting:., a common attitude toward the Soviet Union. The deterioration in Chilean-Jugo-slav relations which preceded tonight’s break with Russia and Czechoslovakia began on October 8 when two Jugoslav diplomats were expelled. This resulted in Jugoslavia breaking off diplomatic relations, with Chile,’ ' ■