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Chile. Seňor Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile, who is enjoying forced leave of absence from his executive duties (TIME, Sept. 22) arrived in Paris with his sense of humor intact. He told his friends a story. He quoted a speech that he had made to the Italian Crown Prince on the occasion of the latter's visit to Chile last summer: "Your Highness will forgive us for having nothing grandiose here to show you such as you possess in Italy-no Coliseum, monuments, cathedrals or works of art. We are a simple, hard-working people, proud...
Having acceded to the demands of the militants (TIME, Sept. 15), Senor Arturo Alessandri, President of Chile, was forced to tender his resignation. Senate and 'Chamber, however, declined to accept it. They were requested by the President, who had sought shelter in the U. S. Embassy, to reconsider their decision. Again they refused to countenance the presidential resignation...
...this time General Altamirano, who had forced the President to name him Vice President, had succeeded in establishing a military Directorate. Alleged to be baffled by Parliament, the Directorate, in the pert Mussolini manner, gave the President six months leave of absence and off went Senor Alessandri to Argentina...
...strange to think that the "revolution" was in the main caused because President Alessandri championed a bill to provide salaries for Parliamentarians, on the ground that it would enable the poorer classes to enter the Legislature...
...Girondist Party is composed of Socialists and was founded by the Socialist Deputies Alessandri and Bianchi to cooperate with the Fascist Party. Thus has Mussolini triumphed over his late colleagues by causing a rift in their ranks...