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...Adolf Hitler, Popular Front President Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile curiously sent a May Day posy of greetings-"best wishes for your personal happiness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Holiday | 5/12/1941 | See Source »

...days later the Socialist Party with drew from the Popular Front because it was "inspired by the Communist Party." Just before last week's congressional election the three Socialist members of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda's Cabinet resigned...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Pro-U. S. or Neutral? | 3/17/1941 | See Source »

Homely, pock-marked little Pedro Aguirre Cerda won his nickname Don Tinto from the tinto (red wine) squeezed from his prosperous vineyards. Friends of the rotos (ragged ones), his Popular Front took control of Chile away from the other haciendados and big businessmen two years ago, made rich Don Tinto President. Last week Chile's rotos showed their approval, voted his man, Aurelio Cruzat, to victory in a Senatorial by-election...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Dangers of Don Tinto | 12/2/1940 | See Source »

...already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard -former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: LATIN AMERICA: Fascism in the West | 7/29/1940 | See Source »

President Pedro Aguirre Cerda's La Hora put full responsibility for success of the plan up to the U. S., declared that democracy, as based on "existing economic, financial, commercial and industrial regimes," was less important to Latin America than to the U. S., since "these countries have not been able to change their position as countries producing and exporting raw materials and consuming, of necessity, foreign manufactured articles." Therefore, it concluded, the U. S. must be prepared to "finance the development of our republics-and without any charge whatsoever-in necessary amounts to give shape to the suggestion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AMERICA: Gentlemen, Be Seated | 7/22/1940 | See Source »

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