CHILE: Presidents of the Week

There is a nightmare that every Latin-American President has over & over again. In it the dapper officers who have been saluting so punctiliously come to the President's bedroom in the middle of the night with a resignation for him to sign. Chilean officers last week called on dapper little President Carlos Guillermo Davila. former Ambassador to the U. S., and it was no dream. While airplanes droned over the Presidential palace for nearly 24 hours, General Bartolome Blanche, the Army's Commander in Chief, and Col. Arturo Merino Benitez, Chief of the...

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