Word: chiari
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Dates: during 1925-1925
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Blood red the flag of Communism flew over Panama City. Rents had been high, wages low. Striking tenants and laborers swarmed in thousands through the streets, and frightened President Chiari of Panama into calling for U. S. troops from the Canal Zone...
Forth came President Chiari. After conferring with representatives of the landlords and striking tenants, who were being held as prisoners, he found that their rage had not yet cooled sufficiently for a compromise to be possible...
Sadly President Chiari returned to his official residence; invited his U. S. guests to stay and police Panama until the present emergency is considered past. Declared satisfied U. S. conservatives: "Red flags fly at Panama, but the American flag flies above them." But U. S. radicals grumbled. "The sacred right of revolution has been wrested from a supposedly free people...
Panama. At Cristobal in the Panama Canal Zone, the arrival of U. S. General John J. Pershing, traveling as President of the Tacna-Arica Plebiscite Commission (TIME, Mar. 16, 23, 30), was enthusiastically signalled. Later, the General went to the city of Panama, paid his respects to President Rodolfo Chiari who was in mourning for a near relative. General Lassiter, Panaman soldier, gave a reception in honor of his U. S. comrade...