Word: nacistas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Nobody in Chile has ever taken the five year-old Nacista party very seriously except the Nacistas. The Nacistas take everything seriously. Last week the Nacista Congress at Santiago was very grave about a serious mistake everybody (except the Nacistas) had made for a long time-namely, confusing the word Nacista with the word Nazi. The latter, they said has horrid meanings; Nacista has the most innocent root in the world- "birth...
Apparently the whole thing was a mistake from the beginning. Chile's party, said the Congress, was not in the least like Germany's. True, one of the three Nacista members of the Chamber of Deputies is part German. Admittedly, the party supported storm troops. There was no denying that members occasionally wore greyish-brown shirts and overseas caps. Indeed, they did go about saluting each other with raised arms. Sometimes it is a fact, they drilled. Yes, they once took to the streets to fight the Communists. No good Nacista would deny that he was fanatically nationalistic...
...known that the defeated Rightist candidate, on his way to Europe, stopped off in Buenos Aires to confer with General Carlos Ibáñez, onetime Strongman of Chile, who was implicated in the Nacista uprising and is regarded by some Rightists as their white hope for another revolt. At week's end, back to Chile flew General Ibanez, presumably with President Aguirre's permission. He was welcomed by several thousand cheering Nacistas in their green shirts and military caps...
...year-old President Arturo Alessandri, "Lion of Tarapaca," has represented a political stability of sorts. During his last six years of the Presidency he has nipped all incipient revolts in the bud. Fortnight ago, however, this record was rudely broken when Chilean Nazis, members of the storm-trooping Nacista (Nazi) Party, staged a revolt. It lasted four hours. When the shooting stopped, 62 persons were dead. Arrested were Führer Jorge Gonzalez von Marees and popular old General Carlos Ibáñez, a former dictator, who was the Nazis' Presidential candidate...