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Nineteen forty-five was an important year for Neruda: he joined the Communist Party, was elected a Senator from Tarapaca and Antofagasta, two Chilean provinces populated by workers in the copper and nitrate mines, and wrote perhaps his most famous collection of poems, The Heights of Macchu Picchu. His decision to become a Communist caused him continual harassment; newspapers often would ignore his letters and censor his statements. He was briefly imprisoned in Argentina with no explanation given. Anti-Communist priests persecuted his poor friends and, finally, the Chilean courts ordered his arrest for criticizing the government, forcing him into...
...right is former President Jorge Alessandri, 74, who is backed by the country's business interests but retains a carefully preserved common touch. Every Saturday morning he carries a wreath to the grave of his father Arturo, a onetime President whom the Chileans revere as "the lion of Tarapaca." To hundreds of thousands of poor rows (broken ones) who have flocked from the large estates to Santiago, Jorge Alessandri is himself a father figure. "There is too much politics," he says, "and not enough work...
Chile's Senate was in for a long spell of entertaining roars and rhetorical man-eating last week. "The Lion of Tarapaca" was back...
...Chile, the president of the Senate might resign. The evenly divided Senate might then elect Alessandri to take his place. Some day harried President Rios might also resign. That would give the Minister of the Interior Presidential power. But he might not feel up to bearing "The Lion of Tarapaca. "If he resigned, Alessandri, as president of the Senate, would automatically take his place. That would practically insure Alessandri's election as President of Chile...
...most Chileans dynamic, blue-eyed, stocky, 70-year-old President Arturo Alessandri, "Lion of Tarapaca," has represented a political stability of sorts. During his last six years of the Presidency he has nipped all incipient revolts in the bud. Fortnight ago, however, this record was rudely broken when Chilean Nazis, members of the storm-trooping Nacista (Nazi) Party, staged a revolt. It lasted four hours. When the shooting stopped, 62 persons were dead. Arrested were Führer Jorge Gonzalez von Marees and popular old General Carlos Ibáñez, a former dictator, who was the Nazis' Presidential...