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...fill the post of President, left vacant when Pedro Aguirre Cerda died of bronchial and lung congestion last month, Chile must hold an election in February. Last week, after some political scuffling, the line-up of candidates emerged. Chile's next President will probably be chosen from the following...
Last week the poor man of Chile, his affection for Pedro Aguirre Cerda even stronger than it was two years ago, mourned his "muy buen hombre." For two days the body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda lay in state in the Hall of Honor of Santiago's Congress Building. From all over Chile special trains disgorged mourners for the President. More than 200,000 crossed themselves as they filed sadly past the remains of the wealthy lawyer and vintner who, as the Americas' first and only Popular Front President, had been the champion of Chile's swarming poor...
Through a portal inscribed "Wide is the gate-Wayfarer advance!" the funeral procession entered the cemetery. From the nearby hill thousands watched the full military burial ceremonies at the Aguirre family vault. As the body of Pedro Aguirre Cerda was laid to rest, guns boomed from the hills and Santiago's church bells joined in tolling concert. The President had long since pronounced his own epitaph: "I was born in the country and I have ever been faithful to my first love, the land...
...full text of the article: "For weeks the head of America's only Popular Front Government, Chile's President Pedro ('Don Tinto') Aguirre Cerda, has been on an uneasy seat in Santiago's grey, pillared Moneda Palace. Struggling for power have been members of the President's own Radical Party, Communists, Rightists, Germanophile Army officers...
...Died. Pedro Aguirre Cerda, 62, President of Chile; of bronchial and lung congestion; in Santiago...