As Predicted

In police equipment, farthest south from the unarmed bobbies of London with their wooden truncheons (see p. 19) are the carabineros of Chile, who in times of emergency are encumbered with a pistol, a rifle, a sabre, a lance and a horse. Some 7,500 of them clattered into Santiago last week to keep the peace during Chile's sixth change of government but first legal election in five months. Of all the Generals, Colonels and ex-Ambassadors who have seized the presidential chair this year, only one got his name on the ballot: Spanish-Irish Colonel Marmaduke Grove who was until election week a political exile on Robinson Crusoe's lobster-infested Mos-a-Tierra Island.

Candidate of the Radical Party was Arturo Alessandri, 64, who had been President of Chile from 1920-24 until overthrown by a coup d'etat under a General Altamirano. He won by an enormous margin. Snarled defeated Colonel Grove: "I have returned to win now--or later" (presumably by attempting another coup d'etat).

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