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...Reds agreed to wage relentless war against the free-enterprise policies of Chile's conservative President Jorge Ales-sandri, against foreign (and specifically U.S.) investments. They pledged themselves to fight for the "national liberation" of Chile by adding to the popular front they have already formed with the Socialists. President Alessandri, who barely, beat Socialist Candidate Salvador Allende in September's election, will plainly have to deal with a threat that is growing faster than he could have guessed...
...Lion is thick-maned Arturo Ales-sandri, 76, Chile's most formidable orator,* and its President from 1920 to 1925 and from 1932 to 1938. Fortnight ago he was elected Senator from Talca...
Aboard the Panay, Messrs. Mayell and Alley joined 14 other civilians fleeing upriver, among them six journalists: Weldon James, United Press Nanking chief; G. M. McDonald of the London Times; Norman Soong of the New York Times; Luigi Barzina and Sandro Sandri, Italian correspondents; James Marshall, Collier's staff writer. Within 24 hours these eight newsmen had ringside seats at what may still become this century's Maine affair, when Japanese airplanes and machine guns from launches bombed, strafed and sank the Panay 25 miles upriver from Nanking...
...Panay incident, Jim Marshall was hit in the shoulder, leaped onto a Standard Oil tanker which nosed alongside the gunboat, got ashore with the aid of a U. S. seaman and was taken to Wuhu by friendly Japanese. Less fortunately, Sandro Sandri of the Turin Stampa died next day of a horribly painful stomach wound. Other foreign correspondent to die during the hostilities was Pembroke Stephens, crackman from the London Telegraph. He was machine-gunned while watching the siege of Shanghai from a water tower in the French Concession. Two New York Timesmen, Hallett Abend and Anthony James Billingham, were...