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...Valparaiso warships of the U.S. and Argentina arrived with delegations to the inaugural of new President González Videla. He announced admission of three Communists to his Cabinet of eleven, the first Red invasion of this sort in Chilean history. The 1947 budget was cut from $221,000,000 to $203,000,000, chiefly at the expense of the departments of education, health and sanitation. Expenditures for military purposes were not seriously affected...
Congress made it official. Leftist Gabriel Gonzalez Videla, who had won a plurality (but not the necessary majority) in last month's elections, would be Chile's new President. As the results were announced last week in the Chamber, Communist legislators, raising clenched fists, sang Chile's national anthem. Soviet Ambassador Dmitri Alexandrovich Zhukov, impeccably stony-faced, looked on with other diplomats...
President-elect Gonzalez Videla, who is no Communist, but who had Communist support and will probably include red-banner men in his Cabinet, got the good news at home while 60,000 backers cheered beneath his windows. He took the bows, then dined with his family and went to a movie. To Chileans, racked by hunger and inflation, Gonzalez Videla said: "Have confidence, you will not be betrayed...
Chileans could expect a shower of sparks for the next six years. If Congress approved charming, explosive Gabriel Gonzalez Videla's 50,000-vote plurality (not a majority) in last week's elections, Chile would be getting its liveliest president in many a political moon...
...Parana River from rich Argentina came two mine layers and a delegation of nine officials led by Rear Admiral Eleazar Videla. Out of the sky from Bolivia came nine planeloads of officials; from Brazil more airplanes; from Chile a delegation with Foreign Minister Joaquin Fernández; from Uruguay U.S. Ambassador William Dawson. From as far away as Costa Rica came others...