THE PRESIDENCY: Good-Neighborly Gesture

Carlos Guillermo Dávila is a Chilean newspaperman who became an Ambassador, once (in 1932) served for three months as President of Chile. When Chilean Army airmen threatened to drop bombs on the President's palace, Dávila resigned. He has lived in Manhattan ever since.

But no exile is Newsman Dávila. He is a sort of unofficial Chilean Ambassador, through his Editors Press Service, Inc. makes big medicine for Franklin Roosevelt in Latin America. Last week Carlos Dávila was on his way back to Chile in a U. S. Army bomber. With him went his...

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