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This week his journalistic enemy, El Imparcial, called for a medical bulletin to allay "public anxiety." Don Tinto issued a political bulletin. He announced his temporary retirement on account of bronchitis and grippe, by law turned over his powers to Minister of the Interior Méndez...
...weeks the head of America's only Popular Front Government, Chile's President Pedro ("Don Tinto") Aguirre Cerda, has been on an uneasy seat in Santiago's grey, pillared Moneda Palace. Struggling for power have been members of the President's own Radical Party, Communists, Rightists, Germanophile Army officers...
Glancing at the Caja de Seguro Obrero, as he must have done many a time in the last few critical weeks, Don Tinto could pull his bushy mustache and reflect on the dual perils which have beset his administration from its start. To the left of him was the danger that the Popular Front would disintegrate; to the right, the danger of another Sept. 5. Don Tinto's recent veto of two bills passed by Congress brought both perils upon him last week...
Trouble on a Flat Car. One bill granted amnesty to political offenders. Congress overrode President Aguirre's veto, and back to Chile went one firebrand whom Don Tinto would have loved to keep in exile: onetime President Ibañez, who made his return in state, sitting in his automobile on a flat car of a freight train. On his way back was another: General Ariosto Herrera, leader of the Movimiento Nadonalista, a Nazified party which made another unsuccessful Putsch...
Trouble in a Hall. Without Communist support the Popular Front could not have existed. With Communist support it could not endure, since patriotic Leftists of other parties are convinced that the Communists take orders from Moscow. The second bill Don Tinto vetoed was one outlawing the Communist Party This time the veto stuck, but Don Tinto's own Radical Party ordered six of its members to resign from the Cabinet in protest. This they did, but the President persuaded them to reconsider. Thereupon they were kicked out of the Party...