While delegates of the 21 American Republics met in Havana last week to face the transoceanic threat of fascism, the struggle of democracy v. fascism was already making history in the Western Hemisphere. Bombs, of the firework variety, were set off in the streets of Santiago, Chile by the Popular Socialist Vanguard —former Chilean Nacista (Nazi) Party. At the same time members strewed the town with pamphlets, attacking tough little pockmarked President Pedro Aguirre Cerda for pardoning the carabineros who shot down 62 Nazi students in the abortive 1938 revolt.
Aguirre's shaky...
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