CHILE: Tabasco Talk

General Carlos Ibanez, peppery and choleric, is not so much the Dictator as the Playboy of Chile.* A year ago his rank was that of colonel, but even then he was admittedly master of the military Junta which makes and unmakes Chilean presidents. Last week, as Minister of War, he suddenly made a characteristic statement to the press:

"It is time to break the Red influence of Moscow! [This referred to a few recent speeches in the Chamber by Deputies with radical leanings.] The way to break the strangling grip of Red Communism...

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