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Show THE BREAKS Chile, Brazil Kiss Russia Good -By Acting almost simultaneously, two South American na tions Brazil and Chile curtly announced severance of diplomatic dip-lomatic relations with Russia because, as they both implied, they couldn't stand it any longer. Brazil, which beat Chile to the gun by a few hours in breaking relations, had the less valid reason for its action, on the surface, at j least. Stated reason for the move was given as the "extremely outrageous out-rageous and even calumnious" articles arti-cles in the Russian press attacking attack-ing Pres. Enrico Gaspar Dutra and the Brazilian army. Russla'a Literary Gazette had called Dutra an Incompetent soldier sol-dier and a Fascist. It was the same magazine that had compared President Presi-dent Truman with Hitler, to whleh the U. S. strongly objected but took no further action. Chile, however, had a more deep-seated deep-seated grievance. Communist Infiltration Infil-tration in the nation's southern coal tone, leading to recent labor difficulties there, undoubtedly spurred the decision to sever relations. rela-tions. Chilean Pres. Gabriel Gonzalez Vldcla previously had accused the Communists of planning to cripple Chile's production of copper, nl- trates and other strategic materials and hamper defense of the western hemisphere and the United States. He also had announced his intention inten-tion to "end once and for all" what he called Communist dictatorship over Chile's mine workers. And in a burst of thoroughness, Chile also ended diplomatic relationships rela-tionships with Czechoslovakia. If no other end is accomplished, the action by Brazil and Chile at least may answer the question of whether Communist penetration Into a nation actually can be halted by breaking diplomatic relaUons with Russia. |