CHILE: White Guard

After a delirious period that produced ten Chilean regimes in 17 months. Chile has had the same chief executive since December, compact, blue-eyed Arturo Alessandri, the "Lion of Tarapaca." There have lately been rumors that Lion Alessandri was slipping.

Last week President Alessandri silenced rumors and his critics with a great surprise: a review from the balcony of the Presidential palace of the "White Guard."

All Chileans knew that a secret Fascist Chilean organization existed whose purpose was to uphold the Republican regime of President Alessandri. Even members of the individual cells...

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