PRO-PEACE MEETING AT LOTA, CHILE

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• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R008500060004-2
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• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: May 26, 2000
• Sequence Number: 4
• Publication Date: September 22, 1951
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY Chile Alb t1l.01AX 8
SUBJECT Pro-Peace Meeting at Lota, Chile
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1. On 5 August 1951, at. the Chillanoito Plaza at Leta, Chile, there was a
public meeting sponsored by the Provincial Pro-Peace Committee of
Concepcion. About 300 people attended.
2. The first speaker was the presidert of the Youth Pro-Peace Committee
of Concepcion, Isaac Carrillo, whe asked those present to sign the
Peace Appeal of Stockholm. He said that the Pro-Peace lovement
united all men of good will, irreepctive of race, religion, or politics.
He pointed out that he had been a devout Catholic, as is the writer
Gabriela Zstral, who had signed this docullient. Lo denounced the Chilean
Government for being interested in sandine Chilean troops to the fields
of Korea, but added that this desire had been frustrated by the decision
of the people, who do not want' war, which is profitable only to the
Yankee imperialists, who are massacring the defenseless people of Korea.
The mobilization for world peace, said the orator, was to culminate in
the celebration of the Youth Festival in Berlin. Finally, referring to
the strike at Schwager, he said that the workers were taking effective
measures to reaover the syndicate directorate taken over by the traitors.
3. Fernando Steffens, member of the Pro-Peace Committee of Concepcion,
spoke on a document related to the last V4orld kir and the disastrous effects
of the atom bomb, especially on innocent peop'ee. He said that the efforts
of the Pro-Peace Committee were directed at putting an end to this scourge.
4. Next, Deputy Victor Galleguillos Glatt greeted those present in the name
of Communist Senators alas Lufferte and Salvador Ocampo. Then in a long
peroration he referred to the Pro-Peace ,Aovement and the necessity for all
Chileans to join 4'orces in favor of this movement, which is against the
warmongers of the whole world and especially talo Yankee imperialists. Be
added that due to the efforts of Senators Lafferte and ()cameo it was almost
certain that the accursed Law of eefense of eemocracy would be repealed, in
which case numerous exiled worker would be free and the poet Pablo Neruda
would be able to return to his country. ao exhorted the workers tc maintain
unity through their union organizations, so as to give battle to imperialistic
industries, such as the Compania Carbonifera of Lota.
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