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...while it looked as if Chile's Presidential election this week would be close. Arrogant, handsome General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo, once his nation's "strong man," was backed by the rightist Conservative and Liberal Parties, the small but noisy pro-Nazi Popular Socialist Vanguard. Smooth, greying Juan Antonio Rios, veteran Radical Party politico, was backed by the middle-to-left Popular Front, fast recovering from its sickness following the death of President Pedro Aguirre Cerda last November...
...nights before the election Ibáñez supporters put on an enthusiastic but disorganized demonstration in a Santiago public square. Two nights later at least 30,000 Rios partisans marched in superb order into the Plaza Bulnes, carrying such anti-Ibáñez slogans as BLOCKHEAD, RETURN TO BERLIN and LET'S TURN HIM OVER TO JAPAN...
Election day was unusually orderly. But during the quiet the Popular Front, the mining, industrial and farm workers who did not like the dictatorial smell of General Ibáñez, rolled up a whacking majority of 55,000 (out of 460,000) votes for Juan Antonio Rios...
Candidate of the Right is General Carlos Ibáñez del Campo. Once (1927-31) a "strong man" President of his country, General Ibáñez was exiled, has been trying to make a political comeback since 1937. He entered the campaign as an independent, played his cards so shrewdly that he got the backing of both the old-line rightist parties (Liberals and Conservatives). Though he is also backed by Chile's pee-wee Nazi party, General Ibáñez claims he is no totalitarian, merely a strong nationalist...
...should carry Ríos to victory. A big questionmark, however, is Chile's independent electorate-a full quarter of her voters. Many of them are small businessmen who did not like the last Popular Front administration. If enough of them should swing to Ibáñez, neither candidate may get a clear majority since there are one or two splinter party candidates in the field. If this happened, Chile's Congress would have to pick a President...