CHILEAN ELECTIONS.

Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 563, 17 September 1932, Page 1

CHILEAN ELECTIONS.

Poll to be Held on October 30, Says Decree. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received September 17, 11.30 a.m.) j SANTIAGO DE CHILE, Sept. 16. ! General Bartolome Blanche, actingPresident of Chile, signed a decree today providing for the holding of the Presidential elections on October 20. Last June, following a revolution in the Army, Navy and Air Force, Don Carlos Guillermo Davila assumed the Presidency in Chile, from which he resigned the other day when threatened by the Army, Navy and Air Force that he would be blown out of office if he did not resign. He assumed office on a Socialistic programme. “ Time,” an American magazine, recently said of Davila that he “ worked his way through law school, nearly starved trying to practice law, entered journalism. Playing the Press and politics for all they were worth, he built up a fortune in little over a decade, boomed General Ibanez for the Presidency (Dictatorship) and took as his well-earned reward the Chilean Embassy at Washington. Mercurial in temperament, Don Carlos changes his mind as often as women are supposed to do, and switches his programmes to suit the times. Thus in 1929 when Columbia University made him a Doctor of Laws (Honoris Causa) he was shouting for more and bigger loans to Chile, which many Chileans feared as * giving a foothold to imperialism.’ No sooner did times turn really bad than he popped up at Santiago as a bantam Stalin. A man with a host of friends, a good fellow, spender, gourmet, racy raconteur, Don Carlos was not down last week merely because he seemed out.”