CHILE: Mistaken Identity

Nobody in Chile has ever taken the five year-old Nacista party very seriously except the Nacistas. The Nacistas take everything seriously. Last week the Nacista Congress at Santiago was very grave about a serious mistake everybody (except the Nacistas) had made for a long time—namely, confusing the word Nacista with the word Nazi. The latter, they said has horrid meanings; Nacista has the most innocent root in the world— "birth."

Apparently the whole thing was a mistake from the beginning. Chile's party, said the Congress, was not in the least like Germany's. True, one of the three Nacista members of...

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