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...first time in 20 years, Chileans last week elected an out-and-out conservative as their President. He is Jorge Alessandri, 62, an austere businessman with an enlightened touch and a man who counts himself a friend of the U.S. Alessandri's victory over the second-place candidate, Socialist Salvador Allende, was a close (387,292 votes to 352,915) but clear triumph of the conservative right over the Red-lining left. The defeated Allende was backed by Chile's newly legalized Communists. They were not enough to elect him for the next six years...
Poverty Ticket. Behind him, Alessandri left three other also-rans, who had little chance. All told, they polled only 40% of the total 1,227,575 vote. Chile's staggering economy provides the kind of black-and-white issues that favored Conservative Alessandri and Socialist Allende. Though outgoing President Carlos Ibanez struggled to hold the shoestring republic's frayed economy together, he leaves 170,000 unemployed out of a 2,000,000-man labor force, 1,000,000 homeless, a 10% slump in industrial production, an external debt of $718 million. Defeated Socialist Allende missed not a drumbeat...
Conservatism and orderliness led Ibáñez, in 1925, to take part in an army revolt against Chile's first reform-minded liberal President, Arturo Alessandri. Making himself dictator, he borrowed $300 million abroad, touched off a period of prosperity, then saw his regime collapse in 1931 with the Depression. The experience soured Chile on dictatorship, but did not discourage Ibáñez. He tried three more revolutions, including a 1939 Putsch copied after that of the Nazis. All failed, and Ibáñez finally decided, in 1952, to try the ballot box. His lonely, military...
...Minh's Communists on the basis of full-scale war. France would send to Indo-China: 1) 50,000 more troops, 2) more tanks & guns, 3) warships. An appeal would be made to the U.S. to speed up military-aid airplanes. At the same time, General Marcel Alessandri, 65-year-old infantryman, was relieved as commander of the Tonkin area and replaced by General Pierre Georges Boyer de la Tour du Moulin, 63, who has an intimate knowledge of Indo-China and a reputation for energy and aggressiveness. Say his colleagues: "Il a beaucoup de mordant" (He has plenty...
Died. Arturo Alessandri Palma, 81, president of the Chilean Senate, twice (1920-25; 1932-38) President of Chile; in Santiago. A leader of Chile's Liberal Party, a skilled old hand at political give & take, Alessandri (called El Leon-the lion) pulled the strings in many a political deal, helped put President Gabriel Gonzalez Videla in office...