Word: gonz
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Dates: during 1941-1941
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Juan Antonio Rios, candidate of the Radical Party, who looked like the best bet. A banker and onetime Minister of the Interior, he represents the right wing of the Radical Party and is strongly antiCommunist. A Radical split had loomed when Rios and Gabriel González Videla divided the vote of the nominating convention and a special tribunal had to be set up to decide the party's nominee. But last week, when the tribunal decided for Rios, Leftist Gonzalez, who had been the late President's personal choice, announced that he would manage Rios' campaign...
...window of his office in pillared, grey Moneda Palace, Santiago's White House, Pedro Aguirre Cerda can look across the Calle Morande to the scene of the massacre that made him President of Chile. On Sept. 5, 1938, the Nacista Party of an ineffectual little Hitler named Jorge González von Marées tried to stage a Putsch in behalf of onetime President General Carlos Ibañez del Campo. In the course of the proceedings 60 Nacista youths and a couple of innocent insurance salesmen who had barricaded themselves in the Caja de Seguro Obrero (Workers...
Ready and waiting for them was Jorge González von Marées, who had changed the name of his Nacistas to the Popular Socialist Vanguard and who had attained the dignity of a seat in the Chamber of Deputies. Only a word from González was needed to set off another Rightist revolt...