CHILE: Constitutional Mockery

For the second time in 18 months, Dictator-Premier Carlos Ibanez neatly and constitutionally detached from office last week a President of Chile.

His first exploit of this character was to demand and receive by right of might the resignation of President Arturo Allessandri (TIME, Oct. 12, 1925), and to cause the election of President Emiliano Figueroa.

There followed an alleged campaign to purge Chile of Reds, during which it was observed that those arrested, jailed or deported were in very few instances tinged with Communism but were in every instance foes of Premier...

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