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Spain. Jubilant as the recognitions poured in was dapper little provisional President Carlos Davila. His personal friend, former Chilean Dictator General Carlos Ibanez who lately returned from exile (TIME, July 18), calmed public fears of an Ibanez coup last week by quietly going into exile again...
...Hoover campaign rolling in the Midwest, Secretary of War Hurley, dapper and dashing, went to Columbus, Ohio last week to address the Republican State Convention. His speech, like Secretary Mills' in Boston fortnight ago, was a master text, hall-marked by the White House for lesser G. 0. Partisans to echo on the stump. Loud of voice, wide of gesture, Secretary Hurley demonstrated the approved party method of defending President Hoover and attacking Governor Roosevelt. Excerpts...
Meanwhile dapper Don Carlos & family moved out of their handsome house, moved into Casa Moneda, palace of Chilean Presidents. Tanks rumbled into the palace courtyard. Machine guns were set up on the walls. Two regiments of infantry who Don Carlos hoped were loyal took up defensive positions around the citadel of "Sane" Socialism...
Sneers, Cheers, Hubbub? In Geneva dapper, snowy-crested Ambassador Gibson amplified and emphasized his reading of the President's proposal by adding: "In our most powerful arm, the Navy, we are prepared as part of this general program to scrap more than 300,000 tons of existing ships and to forego the right to build more than 50,000 tons. In land material our proposal would affect more than 1,000 heavy mobile guns, approximately 900 tanks, and, in aviation, about 300 bombing airplanes...
Again "Up Davila!" Dapper Don Carlos Davila began the week down but not out. He had resigned as Provisional President from the original revolutionary Cabinet when forced out by Col. Marmaduke Grove who became the new Head of the State (TIME, June 20). Lying low as a leopard, Don Carlos did not contradict rumors that he would let Col. Grove send him to Moscow as Chilean Ambassador. In Moscow his job would be to barter Chilean nitrates for Soviet petroleum. But instead of leaving for Moscow, Don Carlos circulated among army officers of his acquaintance...