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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...
Before dawn General Moreno. Col. Bravo and the rest of the Army officers had called upon their good friend Don Carlos Davila to assume the Presidency of a "purely civilian junta" which he prompt...
...Sane" Socialism. Once more sitting in the seat of Power which he first reached June 4 on a program of Socialism, Don Carlos Davila promptly announced that he now stands for "Sane" Socialism...
...tanker to dock at Santiago and discharge its cargo. While Col. Grove was in power this tanker hovered off shore, refusing to dock though there was an acute gasoline shortage at Santiago. In a word the rich U. S. citizens who used to have every confidence in rich Ambassador Davila, had confidence last week that his "Sane" Socialism will not hurt the billion-dollar foreign interests in Chile...
...Ruthless Davila. Though genial by nature, President Davila realized that if he is not to fall a second time stern measures must be taken. When railway and other strikes broke out in sympathy with Col. Grove the new Davila Government sent soldiers to run some of the trains, suspended other service. Despatches smuggled past the censor purporting to tell of counterrevolutions in various parts of Chile were firmly, officially denied, and that was that...