Petition against Allende visit
Sir, — lam delighted that people are attempting to bring to the attention of the ■ citizens of Christchurch the activities of the Allende 1 regime. The military take-over was only just in time to save Chile from a permanent communist take-over. Allende used his minority presidency to hamstring law and order in Chile in the interests of land-grabbing extremists. If'was his attempt to undermine the till then conciliatory Army and Navy, the last bastion of Chilean freedom — apart from the thousands of dis-, gusted housewives and workers — that provoked the temporary take-over, by General Pinochet- All talk that Allende was a “defender” of democracy is nonsense in the light of - his well-publicised hob-nobbing with Fidel Castro, whose Cuban subjects so love ’ his tyranny that whenever .the opportunity, occurs, they leave in droves to tell the outside world what they are missing. —Yours, etc., , C. C. H. ELDERTON. April 21, 1980.
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Press, 24 April 1980, Page 16
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