Word: alessandris
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...Congress. That had been González plan of several weeks ago. But not all Chileans wanted to be as tough as their volatile President. The Socialists, in Chile no friends of Communists, opposed outlawing the party, as a blow to civil liberties. Pink-cheeked old Senate President Arturo Alessandri, a Liberal, twice Chile's President and still a great power in politics, let it be known that he was against the idea...
...died of cancer, the political vultures had swooped and darted. Last week they plunged. Chilean law requires presidential elections within 60 days after the office becomes vacant, and all but one of the prospective candidates had already stumped the country. The exception was 77-year-old ex-President Arturo Alessandri Palma, likely rightist candidate. Because he was too old for that sort of competition, he smartly let it be known that he was also too noble...
Whoever got the job, things could not get much worse in Chile. Ever since the nitrate market broke in the early '30s, both economic and political conditions had been chaotic. Alessandri's social legislation of the '20s, a model of its time, had proved no panacea. Ineptness and bickering had marked eight years of Popular Front rule; plans to cut up big estates and increase agricultural production had been balked by rightists who still controlled banks and social security funds. The present murderous inflation had spawned a new group of profiteering capitalists, cushioned the old ones...
...trouble was in southern Indo-China. At Hanoi, noting that the French Tricolor was missing from the decorations, General Marcel Alessandri huffily refused to attend the Japanese surrender to Chinese General Lu Han. And at week's end a protest went from Paris to Chungking: Chinese troops had "advanced" into Laos in the French zone
...alarmed opponents had already dreamed up a series of events that might make Alessandri President of Chile. Not wishing to take precedence over an ex-President of Chile, the president of the Senate might resign. The evenly divided Senate might then elect Alessandri to take his place. Some day harried President Rios might also resign. That would give the Minister of the Interior Presidential power. But he might not feel up to bearing "The Lion of Tarapaca. "If he resigned, Alessandri, as president of the Senate, would automatically take his place. That would practically insure Alessandri's election...