CHILE: A Heavy Suitcase

U. S. correspondents in South America watch like hawks the movements of stout, well-fed Baron Edmund von Thermann. German Ambassador to Argentina. But last fortnight he gave them the slip. He suddenly turned up in Santiago, Chile. Even the Chilean Foreign Office was caught off base; it barely had time to get an official to the airport to greet the Ambassador. Baron von Thermann blandly explained that he was traveling unofficially, was on his way to the Chilean lake country for a vacation. He carried a very heavy suitcase.

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