REACTION OF CHILEAN POLITICAL PARTIES TO COMMUNIST PROPOSAL FOR UNITY

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• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R002400180006-4
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 1
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 9, 1999
• Sequence Number: 6
• Publication Date: March 1, 1949
• Content Type: REPORT

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Reaction of Chilean Political. P to
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It is reported that IT Io Ruts :zolar, leader of the Chi can Radical Democratic
Party which is a member of tine FRh$ coalition, has been authorized to accept the
c n t proposition for alliance.'
The igrariau-Labor Party, another t .ber of FIW , allegedly does not favor a
f l agrmvnt with the Coiimmisto. It is noted that Jaime Lorrain Garcia-Piareno,
the president of the Arbor Ply, did not attend a meeting hold after the
dd1e of San ry in which the proposed unity with the Co tta r lets was allegedly
?'erioun differences concerning the proposed political union with the Comnuniste are
also reported to exist among leaders of the ialange Ylacional. Icy Falange leaders
?illegedly feel that any official electoral went with the C?munistW would
sorious7.y endanger unity within their party, since a great number of Falangists are
ardent Catholics and would be'unwilling to accept a form]. alliance with tho Co.
iu ate, see to gain political advanced Tomas Ryes, the president of the Falanger
has personally expressed neither approval nor disapproval, but has claimed that it
would be neueseary to consult the National Executive Board of the party before such
a decision could be talon. It is believed that he is stalling for time and waiting
to see what decision will be made by the other components of MS,
4,a Although Eugenio ( ntsalas Rojas, the Secretary General of the ?ocialiat Party, has
personally encpreseed his approval of the Communist proposal for the formation of a
P tional Democratic Front, the majority of the members of the Central Committee of
date are oppoeeed to such an alliance. In view of the attitude of these
rn rs, Goners Rojas Is reportedly delaying the calling of a Central Committee
25X 1 A6a,ing until the political situation berme clearer.
gzmrx-t. reported that the Com mist Party of Chile was
25X1 A2g att. to gather all anti- vermaent parties in-Go a Fronts Uiacional Dem*cratieov
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