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Promise of Revolution. It was supposed to be a close election. The campaign started almost two years ago, and grew louder with each passing month. Having come within 29,000 votes of beating incumbent President Jorge Allessandri in 1958, the demagogic Allende blitzed Chile's poor and unemployed with grand promises of "revolution within the law." "From the south to the north," he cried last week at a rally in Santiago, "there is a rebel attitude that will win our destiny." "And now," shrilled a Communist leader grabbing the microphone, "Cuba will not be alone...
...setting up a little import-export business in art objects. Greuter arranged to sell him the stock of an acquaintance's long-moribund holding company, Terbita. But far from quitting public life, Reale got elected to the Italian Senate, and sent a young Italian named Norberto D'Allessandri to Zurich to take care of Terbita. D'Allessandri conducted affairs well, for he soon drove a Jaguar, took an expensive apartment. Yet when tax officials called, D'Allessandri could show them no books. Swiss police then raided his headquarters and found a notebook that disclosed a thriving...
Action at Last. D'Allessandri's little black book showed that in eight months of 1953, Terbita shipped thousands of tons of such strategic commodities as vanadium, cobalt, nickel, copper and molybdenum (listed as Portuguese cork) to Soviet-bloc countries. The record showed that Terbita paid $3,000,000 in profits to the Italian Communist Party. Police also have record that another $1,000,000, transferred from Poland to Terbita's account, never reached the party chest, and Lawyer Greuter said that the Italian Communist Party should ask Reale about that...
Much of this has been known to the Italian police since 1953, when the Swiss deported D'Allessandri and his assistants, and sent their findings to Rome. After Il Tempo's reporter got his story, some action followed at last. Italian police arrested 24 men in Milan and charged them with "conspiracy with foreigners against the national interest." One was D'Allessandri. In Rome, Communist ex-Senator Reale continued to enjoy his singular immunity, and insisted he had done nothing wrong. Said he: "I'm not taking this seriously...
...first exploit of this character was to demand and receive by right of might the resignation of President Arturo Allessandri (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925), and to cause the election of President Emiliano Figueroa...