To most Chileans dynamic, blue-eyed, stocky, 70-year-old President Arturo Alessandri, "Lion of Tarapaca," has represented a political stability of sorts. During his last six years of the Presidency he has nipped all incipient revolts in the bud. Fortnight ago, however, this record was rudely broken when Chilean Nazis, members of the storm-trooping Nacista (Nazi) Party, staged a revolt. It lasted four hours. When the shooting stopped, 62 persons were dead. Arrested were Führer Jorge Gonzalez von Marees and popular old General Carlos Ibáñez, a former dictator, who was the Nazis'...
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