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What this program was no one really knew except Don Carlos Davila who was suspected of making it up as he went along, feeling his way, testing the Great Powers which have a billion dollars invested in Chile to see what they would let him get away with, testing the Chilean populace to see what they would demand. Finally, however, Don Carlos handed to United Press this definite statement of his aims...
...government of Chile has two immediate objects...
These phrases describe the actual situation in Russia, not in Chile. In Chile, a land as long and slim as a string bean, the resources do not exist to defy World Capitalism. No battle fleet could seriously menace the Union of Socialist Soviet Republics which sprawls over one-sixth of the earth, but a second-rate navy prowling up & down the Chilean coast could pulverize every city, town and hamlet...
Observers waited to see whether any other South American land would follow Chile's Socialist lead, revolutions being notably contagious. While Great Britain waited, her House of Commons cheered a Foreign Office statement reminding Chile who rules the waves: "His Majesty's Government takes the most serious view of the Chilean Government's confiscatory measures and . . . will strongly support a demand for full compensation to British interests affected...
...former Dictator Carlos Ibanez, still supposed to be exiled in Argentina last week, might be expected back in Santiago at any time to resume his interrupted Presidency (TIME, Aug. 3); 2) that anti-foreign sentiment would flame up and sweep to power Senator Manuel Hidalgo. Communist, who ran in Chile's last presidential election on a platform of confiscating "Cosach," splitting up Chile's vast landed estates among the peasants and repudiating the national debt; 3) that the Army & Navy strongmen would postpone the selection of a civilian leader and might even be persuaded to let Don Carlos...