CHILE: Progressive Socialism
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Mercurial in temperament, Don Carlos changes his mind as often as women are supposed to do, switches his programs 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.
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