Chile:
Contents
- Efforts of the Department of State to secure equitable treatment for
American interests with respect to Chilean exchange restrictions (Documents 105-131)
- Representations to protect American interests in the liquidation of
Cosach42 and the reorganization
of the Chilean nitrate industry (Documents 132-176)
- The Compañía de Salitre de Chile
(Cosach) was organized under a special law passed by the Chilean
Congress July 21, 1930, and certain decrees with the force of law issued
by President Ibañez in 1931; the two principal subsidiaries were the
Lautaro Nitrate Co., Ltd., and the Compañía Salitrera Anglo-Chileno. For
previous correspondence regarding Cosach, see Foreign
Relations, 1932, vol. v, pp.
430–505
passim.
For texts of pertinent Chilean decrees, reports, etc., issued in 1933, and the debates of the Chilean Congress during 1933 on the project of law for the reorganization of the nitrate industry, see Chile, Ministerio de Hacienda, La Industria del Salitre de Chile (Santiago, Chile, 1935), 3 vols.
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