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...Pedro Aguirre Cerda of Chile was a very sick man last week. His ruddy face now had the flush of fever. As he lay in his bed in the Moneda Palace, the daily bulletins about his health spoke always of his condition, never mentioned the disease from which Don Tinto was suffering. But three of the four doctors attending him were specialists in tuberculosis...
...Tinto's retirement to his bed (TIME, Nov. 17, et seq.) had been the signal for an enfilading attack on the Government. Leftists charged that Rightists and Nazi sympathizers were conspiring to seize power. Rightists declared that Leftists were planning a palace coup. The Radicals and Socialists, chief parties of the Popular Front, were suspicious of each other...
...important visitor. Out of a borrowed Lufthansa plane at Santiago airport one day last week stepped Brazil's smart, dapper Foreign Minister Oswaldo Aranha, all primed to talk commercial treaties. He had left Rio expecting to confer with President Pedro Aguirre Cerda, had learned of Don Tinto's temporary retirement (TIME, Nov. 17) while en route...
...When he entered national politics last year the squat, sallow, middle-aged doctor from Coquim-bo was nicknamed Don Geronimo el Anonimo. Recently he emerged from anonymity to the leadership of the turbulent Radical Party. He had not been a member of the Cabinet until last week when Don Tinto boosted him to the Ministry of the Interior so that he would be next in Presidential succession...
...Acting President, Don Anonimo will have full opportunity to exercise his ability as a compromiser and political pacifier. Don Tinto's Popular Front Government, of which he is now the head, has been the victim of a tug of war between the Radicals and Socialists. Radical leaders are jockeying for the pole position in the next (1944) Presidential campaign. The Communists are lying ominously low. Chile's Rightists, Nazi sympathizers and the Army are waiting sharp-eyed for any crack in the Front...