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Later in the morning the dean of the Peiping diplomatic corps, elderly Senor Justo Garrido y Cisneros, Minister of Spain, called at the Japanese Legation. He carried a lively protest from another still more important legation objecting to the continuance of "provocatively dangerous" military activity. The whole thing looked suspiciously like an attempt to provoke an Incident, as had been successfully done in Shanghai...
...Republic. Cockily last week President Alcala Zamora, who has been surrounding himself with more & more pomp until his entourage is almost regal, announced: "I will spend most of the summer at La Granja palace," famed for its luxurious gardens, often called the Spanish Versailles. Only 15 months ago Senor Alcala Zamora was in jail...
...these things might happen, but meanwhile the Junta appointed a successor to Don Carlos: Minister of the Interior Rolando Merino. General Puga arose from his sick bed. Senor Davila's mild methods of socialization, it was said, were the cause of his fall, but the Junta announced its regime would receive his support. Only new indication of policy was that the Government would delay converting the Banco Central into a State institution. It was reported that Aurelio Munez Morgado, strongly antagonistic to "Co-sach," would supervise Chile's nitrate industry. But Chile's Government late last week...
Only last year short, swart Senor Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, potent Chilean publisher, was hobnobbing in Washington with President Hoover and many another man of property. Senor Davila, as Chilean Ambassador and a leading negotiator in setting up the Chilean-U. S. nitrate trust (Cosach), looked and acted as though he would be the last man on earth to propose State Socialism. Last week he suddenly proposed it to the Chilean people in a bulky manifesto of 20,000 words, was accused of wanting to make himself President by a coup...
...Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'état (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system...