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Democracy, as the U.S. understands it, took more defeats in South America last week. Chile voted a diehard nationalist ex-dictator back to power; in Ecuador the most effective democratic administration in 28 years gave way to another elected ex-dictator. It was a moment for the U.S. people in general, and the State Department in particular, to face a distasteful fact: with these changes, all the South American republics except Uruguay will be governed by dictators or ex-dictators. Some of the governments still profess to be well disposed toward the U.S. and its ideas of democracy...
Then the Club? More than anything else, economic difficulties are likely to keep Ibanez from establishing a new Chile to match Peron's New Argentina. The country is poor, with nothing like Argentina's rich pampas. Until next year's congressional elections, the new leader is expected to move cautiously. But trouble is due for Chile, and it may not wait. "Ibanez has promised the people a six-foot loaf of bread for a peso," said a Santiago lawyer last week. "When the people find out that he can't deliver it, he's going...
...When Chile's Parliament passed historic Law 4054 in 1924, social security was introduced to the Western Hemisphere (the first U.S. federal law was passed in 1935). Since then, Chile has fleshed out the sys! tern to the point where every money earner is entitled, bylaw, to cradle-to-grave insurance against childbirth costs, doctor bills, hospital bills, disability losses and funeral expenses. Manual laborers, furthermore, get old-age pensions up to full working...
Reasonably enough, it was the younger members, many of them from small countries, who spoke up to save I.S.C.M. They had trouble getting their work performed at home, and wanted the same kind of "protection and encouragement" that the older generation had had. The delegates of Australia, Chile, Israel, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Norway, South Africa, Sweden and the U.S. withdrew to a cafe and held a caucus. Their proposal, which the society later accepted: a five-man executive board to keep the I.S.C.M. going for another year. The average age of the new board members was 31-20 years...
Presidential proclamation of the treaty will make Chile the fifth Latin American nation to put in force a military mutual-aid agreement with the U.S. Others: Colombia, Cuba, Peru, Ecuador. Uruguay last week signed a similar pact, but like Brazil, still has to ratify it. Mexico, eighth country invited by the, U.S., declined...