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Backbone of Don Tinto's Popular Front is the Radical Party of conservative-minded Senator Florencio Duran. No more radical than Daladier's Radical Socialists in France, Duran's Party is a conglomeration of big & little businessmen, professionals and skilled workmen. They represent the aspirations of the Chilean bourgeoisie to develop their own industry and commerce, to get a share of the business now in the hands of foreign capital, to break up the semi-feudalism of agriculture. Their struggle against reaction led to their alliance with Chile's Socialists and Communists to elect Don Tinto...
...crises, one revolution and an earthquake. The revolution and at least one of the Cabinet crises were precipitated by the Rightist opposition. Last week Don Tinto had to cope with another Cabinet crisis. This time it was precipitated by the conservative wing of his own Party and Leader Florencio Duran, whom many not so conservative Chileans suspect of being on more than speaking terms with Rightist ex-President Arturo Alessandri...
...Tinto an assurance of loyalty to the Popular Front. Don Tinto, honest friend of the working man, gave it. Pinched between his conservative and radical supporters, he reappointed two of the three untainted Radical members of his Cabinet, replaced the three scandal-smeared members with conservative Radicals of Duran's way of thinking, considered that he had found the best way out of his dilemma. Although South America's only Popular Front Government continued to exist, it had veered decidedly to the Right, and the Confederation of Chilean Workers issued a manifesto declaring that in the situation they...
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...those few foreigners whose presence added reason for the accusation of Moscow's interference in the Spanish war. Their presence was always understood as temporary -until good enough Spanish leaders could be developed to take their places. There are now some truly remarkable Spanish commanders, such as Modesto, Duran, Lister and Campesine, with whom it is considered possible to carry...