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...window of his office in pillared, grey Moneda Palace, Santiago's White House, Pedro Aguirre Cerda can look across the Calle Morande to the scene of the massacre that made him President of Chile. On Sept. 5, 1938, the Nacista Party of an ineffectual little Hitler named Jorge González von Marées tried to stage a Putsch in behalf of onetime President General Carlos Ibañez del Campo. In the course of the proceedings 60 Nacista youths and a couple of innocent insurance salesmen who had barricaded themselves in the Caja de Seguro Obrero (Workers...
Ready and waiting for them was Jorge González von Marées, who had changed the name of his Nacistas to the Popular Socialist Vanguard and who had attained the dignity of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Only a word from González was needed to set off another Rightist revolt...
...South American States represented* rose to embarrass Host Lombardo on this point nor did any of the big three "fraternal delegates" present: French Trade Union Tsar Léon Jouhaux, whose dues-paying followers number 5,000,000; the Minister of Justice of Leftist Spain, famed Ramón González Peña, who has personally fought fascism in the Asturias by lighting sticks of dynamite from the end of his cigar and hurling them where they would do the most good; and John L. Lewis of C.I.O...
...Lewis, M. Jouhaux and Sr. González Peña took no active part last week as Sr. Lombardo Toledano and the other Latin Americans proceeded to found a Federation of Latin American Workers, which adopted a constitution, made Mexico City its headquarters, provided that its president must reside there and then elected Vicente Lombardo Toledano first president. In flattering compliment to President Cárdenas, who last week won for Mexican Federal employes the right to strike, the constitution borrowed almost the exact words of a recent Cárdenas radioration as its charter: that "the principal task...
Every able-bodied man in Leftist Spain was promised by Premier Negrin death before a firing squad unless within 72 hours he should volunteer for the People's Army. The new Minister of Justice is picturesque Ramón González Peña, an Asturian firebrand who led squads of dynamite-throwing miners against the Rightists in the early days...