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Last week President Alessandri silenced rumors and his critics with a great surprise: a review from the balcony of the Presidential palace of the "White Guard...
After a delirious period that produced ten Chilean regimes in 17 months. Chile has had the same chief executive since December, compact, blue-eyed Arturo Alessandri, the "Lion of Tarapaca." There have lately been rumors that Lion Alessandri was slipping...
President Alessandri of Chile last week decreed the liquidation of Cosach, the Chilean nitrate monopoly. Organized to enable the big producers of natural nitrates to pool their interests in the battle against synthetic nitrates and to give the Government a strong voice in exploitation of Chilean reserves, Cosach has been crippled by Depression. Two representatives of the Government and one of the Guggenheim Brothers will direct the liquidation...
Thus far relations between "Lion" Alessandri and such grumbling but resigned U. S. corporations as Cosach have been notably smoothed by U. S. Ambassador William Smith Culbertson who lately flew from Santiago to Washington to give the State Department pointers on the incoming Chilean regime. In Santiago, to which Mr. Culbertson will soon fly back, U. S. residents give him credit for establishing in three parts of the Capital strategic bases stocked with food and other useful things to which members of the U. S. colony could have fled and taken refuge had the series of Chilean revolutions grown...
Gossip of the week in Santiago concerned shrewd, rich Gustavo Ross, picked by President Alessandri to be Finance Minister in the new regime. Reputed to have been a "bear" speculator when the Chilean peso was falling. Don Gustavo is in bad odor. He owes his Finance Ministry, say scandal mongering Santiagans, to a strategic investment made eight years ago when enemies of the "Lion of Tarapaca" chased Senor Alessandri out of Chile and left him with exactly...