Word: alessandri
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...detachment of young Army officers appeared suddenly on the steps of the Moneda Palace, headquarters of the Junto* Government which seized power last September and drove President Alessandri from the country TIME, Sept. 22), entered unhidden. Shortly afterward the Junto of elderly .military men resigned. A Junto of young military men was formed. There was no noise, no ungentlemanly scuffles...
...Junto took prompt steps to recall President Alessandri from his travels in Italy. It announced a policy of "neutrality in politics," accused the old Junto of having "betrayed our confidence and maliciously deviated from our program...
Identifying itself with the former military coup, the new Junta proceeded : ". . . . we are again at the initial point of our movement. We shall call upon the free majority of the country to reorganize Chile under the direction of the constitutional President, guarded by our swords. When Senor Alessandri resumes his post. . . he will convoke the constituent Assembly to carry into effect our program as soon as the new powers of the State are constituted...
When President Alessandri heard the news he enthused not. Replied he, with due and necessary caution...
Unless these things immediately were done President Alessandri said he would not return...