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...Washington, Santiago Iglesias has been elected Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the U. S. Congress. He has eight daughters named Liberty, America, Justice, Fraternity, Equality, Peace, Light and Victory Iglesias...
Eight years ago President Arturo Alessandri had to flee from Chile to Argentina, managed to do so in a special train flying the U. S. flag. Fortnight ago Chileans again elected him President (TIME, Nov. 7). Last week Santiago police had to fire machine gun bullets over the heads of a mob which wished to reject President-Elect Alessandri and raised deafening cheers for the defeated candidate, part-Irish Col. Marmaduke Grove (pronounced Gro-vay). With all Chile tense, wondering whether Col. Grove would try a coup d'état (as he has several times before) the world...
...police equipment, farthest south from the unarmed bobbies of London with their wooden truncheons (see p. 19) are the carabineros of Chile, who in times of emergency are encumbered with a pistol, a rifle, a sabre, a lance and a horse. Some 7,500 of them clattered into Santiago last week to keep the peace during Chile's sixth change of government but first legal election in five months. Of all the Generals, Colonels and ex-Ambassadors who have seized the presidential chair this year, only one got his name on the ballot: Spanish-Irish Colonel Marmaduke Grove...
Both Carlos Davila and General Blanche are used to such upsets. In July 1930. black-mustached Carlos Ibanez was driven out as dictator of Chile. At that time General Blanche was a faithful, little-known Ibanez adherent and Don Carlos Davila was Ambassador at Washington. Ambassador Davila returned to Santiago and went into hiding. General Blanche allied himself with an abortive attempt to restore General Ibanez to power, was cashiered from the army...
Fortnight ago a solemn, resplendent group of bishops, generals, frock-coated cabinet ministers and economists assembled at Santiago's Presidential Palace to watch Provisional President Carlos Davila sign something. The world learned only last week what it was that he signed: Chile's long discussed Emergency Plan by which the Davila Government means to embark on a program of "sane" state Socialism. Nothing could insult President Davila more than to call the plan hastily conceived. An editor who dubbed it "Chile's Five-Minute Plan" was promptly flung into jail last week...