Dictator's Week

Dictator-Premier Carlos Ibanez, bantam Mussolini, bestirred himself with more than wonted vigor throughout the week. He--

P: Suppressed the Communist newspaper Justica; banished onetime President of the Chamber of Deputies Rafael Luis Gumucio as a "Red"; jailed onetime Premier Ladislao Errazuriz for the same trumped-up offense; and arrested 19 "Red" Deputies and 100 "Red" citizens--really his political enemies, who were forthwith hurried into exile upon a ship bound for Central American ports.

P: Despatched through his Foreign Minister Conrado Rios a belligerent proclamation to Chileans in Tacna-Arica:* "You must not be afraid for the future of Tacna-Arica. That territory can only be robbed from our dominion and flag by force of bayonets. The time nears to notify the American nations that the will of the Chilean people is to terminate United States intervention and fix our boundary on the River Sama line. If Peru continues her haughty demands Chile accordingly is under the moral obligation to declare that Tacna-Arica will be annexed to its dominion."

P: Received notice from Rome that Senor Villigas, the Chilean Ambassador, had signed with Signor Mussolini a ten-year treaty of arbitration and amity. Significantly, this is the first treaty of this kind to be signed between Italy and an American nation,/- though Signor Mussolini has woven a network of eleven sinister pacts linking Italy with England, Jugoslavia, Czechoslovakia, Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Spain, Yemen, Rumania and Albania.

*A territory in dispute between Chile and Peru for three generations. Since the Harding Administration the U. S. has sought to mediate, but the recent Chile-U.S.-Peruvian conference upon Tacna-Arica came to an abortive end ( TIME, March 16, 1925 to June 28, 1926).

/-Chile, Colombia and Salvador are the only American nations with so much as a semi-permanent seat on the Council of the League of Nations.