Important Visit

To the White House last week went tall, brooding Dr. Raul Morales Beltrami, who, as Chile's Minister of the Interior, holds the second-highest political office in one of the only two Latin American countries which have not as yet broken relations with the Axis. What he and Franklin Roosevelt discussed was their own secret. Yet observers in North and South America were sure that the visit presaged an early move by Chile toward complete partnership in the United Nations.

Chile, with a long coastline exposed to possible Japanese attack, has been slow...

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