Word: ibanez
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...second time in 18 months, Dictator-Premier Carlos Ibanez neatly and constitutionally detached from office last week a President of Chile...
...Selkirk was abandoned by his shipmates of the sailing ship Cinque Ports after quarreling with the captain, Thomas Stradling. Four years and four months later he was rescued, told his tale in London, and was fictionized for posterity as "Robinson Crusoe"* by Daniel Defoe. Last week Dictator Premier Carlos Ibanez of Chile announced that the Chilean "Reds" recently arrested by his agents (TIME, March 7) would be exiled on Mas-a-fuera Island, 100 miles west of "Robinson Crusoe's Island," supplied with tools and implements, with livestock and building material, guarded by Chilean soldiers and given an opportunity...
Significance. Dictator Carlos Ibanez shrewdly reckoned that the Great Powers would see "poetic justice" in his exile of Chilean "Reds" to an isle which they can make as "Red" as they please. An admirable scheme! But who are these Chilean "Reds" that Dictator Ibanez strove to conceal...
...indisputable that these men are "Conservatives" and "Capitalists"-not "Reds." Their arrest was as scandalous as though President Coolidge should send soldiers to seize Chief Justice Taft and deport him as a Communist. The explanation, as usual, is that Dictator Carlos Ibanez is again finding his despotism over Chile threatened and is getting rid of his enemies under a plausible excuse. Among those arrested who might by a wild stretch of the imagination he called "Red" was Senor Luis Humberto Matis, "The Chilean Gompers," Secretary of the Chilean Federation of Labor...
Vicente Blasco Ibanez, famed Spanish novelist: "The Italian firm which had contracted to publish my book The Muleteer of the Andes, was purchased recently by a Fascist. He dared not publish in the usual way a book by so prominent an anti-Fascist as myself. But neither did he wish to break my contract and pay me heavy damages. Therefore my book appeared last week with a bright red label stuck on the cover, reading: 'With pain at our heart we publish, in sheer respect for our contract, a new and most amusing book by that anti-Fascist swine...