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Fiery President Gabriel González Videla, who as senator used to throw inkwells at congressional foes, last week threw the whole desk at his onetime Communist friends. In so doing, he gave the New World's loudest answer to the Communist manifesto, issued in Poland last fortnight (see INTERNATIONAL...
Because hard-pressed Chile needed Lota's coal to keep railroads and power plants going, President Gabriel González Videla sent troops to Lota, used his emergency powers (TIME, Sept. 1) to order strikers back to the mines, offered a 40% wage increase. At week's end, the miners still stood fast...
Latin reaction was also mixed. Big countries were generally for it, though only Argentina, Venezuela and a few others had money enough to pay for what they would get. Chile's President Gabriel González Videla, against the idea last year, changed his mind and came out for the bill in Rio. The little countries were not so sure. Said a Costa Rican: "We have an army of about 100 men. If we get lots of arms and equipment, we'll find ourselves with a real army, a burden on the treasury, with a militarist outlook that...
Last week Gonzÿlez went a step farther by making his first public criticism of the Communists. The occasion was his veto of the reactionary Farm Bill (TIME, March 10) which would have virtually banned union organization of the landless campesinos. The Communists wanted a veto, but they wanted a louder one than the President gave. Gonzÿlez told a protesting Communist delegation: "I am in profound disagreement with the Communists. . . . The Communists cannot separate me from the people...
...Gonzÿlez' separation from the Commies will not solve all his problems. He must still 1) find an acceptable substitute for the vetoed Farm Bill; 2) settle the still unratified trade treaty with Argentina which the Communists favored while they were in the Cabinet; 3) wangle more loans from Washington, where his anti-Communist stand will do no harm...