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...country in the Western Hemisphere so to be honored were not hard to find. Chile is far from the U. S. It commands the strategic Strait of Magellan. It is an important source of copper and nitrates. It has South America's only Popular Front Government, with concomitant Rightist dissatisfaction. It contains South America's oldest, most firmly established German minority (in the southern lake country, where Baron von Thermann went on his vacation). And Chile's extreme Rightists think highly of Chile's fascist-minded onetime President General Carlos Ibanez del Campo, who now lives...
...enthusiastic were they about it that the election-day toll in the provinces of Valparaíso and Aconcagua added up to one dead, 60 injured. Unfortunately for Don Tinto, this gave his Rightist Opposition the chance it had been looking for to discredit him. With a fine show of martyrdom the Rightists decided their candidates were no longer safe from street riots, announced their complete withdrawal from the Senate & Chamber elections of next March. Though this left the field wide open for President Aguirre's Popular Frontists, it also set up the familiar design for a South American...
...some high cards left. Two of them were the Army and the carabineros (civil guards), without whose support no Chilean revolt could get out of the shouting stage. During the 1938 campaign, which won Aguirre the Presidency, a fascist revolt was viciously suppressed by the carabineros, protecting the outgoing Rightist Government. Last year the mere threat of their guns kept another plot from turning into a revolt against the Popular Front. As long as Don Tinto could keep them in his camp he had little to fear; if he loses them, America's first may become the world...
...Reserve Lieutenant Guillermo Eduardo Nelson Horrocks pronounced a eulogistic defense of totalitarian governments and of Nazi war methods at the annual banquet of the Reserve Officers of the Argentine Armed Forces. Investigation ordered by War Minister Brigadier General Carlos D. Marquez connected Horrocks with an abortive Rightist revolution, touched off a nationwide roundup of Nazi sympathizers, started a systematic examination of German schools...
Serrano Suñer was educated in Italy, where he absorbed his Fascist ideas. He married the sister of Franco's wife. Under the Republic he was an obscure Govern ment lawyer, but when the death of General José Sanjurjo made Franco leader of the Rightist revolution Serrano saw his chance to impose his ideas on the politically uneducated Generalissimo. Lean, tanned and photogenic, Serrano has a driving nervous energy. His was the idea to fuse Spain's heterogeneous Rightist elements - Carlists, Monarchists, Traditionalists, Fascists - into the Falange. While the soldiers fought at the front, he organized...