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...editing of the resolutions, C.I.T.'s newly elected president, mild-mannered Chilean Socialist Bernardo Ibáñez, would have a big voice. Said he: "We are absolutely not going to use C.I.T. as a political instrument . . . the way Lombardo and the Communists used C.T.A.L. [the Latin American Federation of Labor]. We aim only at bettering the workers of America...
Rumpled, dark-eyed Bernardo Ibáñez has worked most of his 45 years at bettering the workers' lot. As a country schoolteacher, he organized Chile's first teachers' union. Back in Chile in 1936, after he had been wounded fighting the Franco forces at Madrid, he organized the Chilean Workers Federation (C.T.Ch.), which he soon made one of the most powerful in Latin America. At a labor conference in Mexico he became a friend of Vicente Lombardo Toledano, and returned to Chile with such a Mexican accent and so many scrapes, that Chileans still call...
...years ago, Chile's Communists cracked the "popular front" and walked out of Ibáñez' C.T.Ch. to found a federation of their own. Ibáñez fought back, breaking with Lombardo and C.T.A.L., but he would probably have been licked if Chilean President Gabriel González Videla had not jettisoned the Communists and become his friend. Last week's conference was the payoff. C.I.T.'s new president knows better than to tie up with the Communists again. Says he: "The Commies are going to use every dirty trick...
...Mexico City, Cinemactor Jorge Veéez and his wife (by civil law marriage), Margarita Richardi de Avila Camacho, missed the plane that was to whisk them (via Manhattan) to Rome for a Catholic Church wedding. Señora Vélez is the widow of Maximino Avila Camacho, fabulously wealthy brother of Mexico's wartime president. As the car with its police escort left for the airport, another car drew abreast, poured in a fusillade of 22 Tommy-gun slugs. Vélez and his wife were wounded; her sister-in-law was killed. Jailed for questioning, Luis...
...President Berreta, who would take office on March 1, had had a first taste of political brimstone back in 1903-04. As a patrol leader, he skirmished on the side of famed Liberal José Batlle y Ordóñez in Uruguay's great civil war, was captured by the rebels and almost executed. As a Batlle follower in the Colorado Party, Berreta contributed to the hardheaded progressiveness that has characterized Uruguay for the past 40 years...