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Strong Nations Only. But mostly the Aglipayans stuck to a kind of Popeless Catholicism in matters of faith and worship. By the time war broke out in 1941, membership had fallen to 1,500,000, served by about 340 priests, 50 student priests, 20,000 deaconesses. Supreme Bishop Santiago Fonacier, Aglipay's successor, elected to play ball enthusiastically with the Japanese occupying forces. As a result, he was ousted by the General Assembly in 1946, and eight months later Bishop Reyes was elected Supreme Bishop...
...President Gabriel González Videla's return from his U.S. good-will tour, two different groups of Chileans planned welcomes. Santiago officials ordered an arch of triumph, flowers, banners, and a day off for everybody. Communists, proclaiming that "González is handing over Chile to the Yankees," plotted strikes and street demonstrations...
...minute, the wiry little President worked frenziedly to get ready for his trip. He settled three strikes, negotiated a political truce in a land-tax fight, and otherwise battened down the hatches for his absence. A pianist with a fine sense) of harmony, he sent an aide scurrying through Santiago shops to track down a copy of The Missouri Waltz...
...Died. Santiago Casares Quiroga, 59, Premier of Spain when the civil war broke out in 1936; in Paris. A moderate leftist, Casares Quiroga was so busy trying to deal with Communist-led strikes and sabotage that the Franco-led rebellion caught him unprepared. He resigned, joined the Loyalist Civil Guard as a private, ended as an exile in Paris and London...
Next morning, González accepted the resignations of his entire cabinet, and Santiago's torrid pavements echoed to the tramping feet of the telephone and light-company employees marching, cold-eyed and silent, back to their jobs. It was the only demonstration in twelve days of dangerous unrest...