"Without Revolution"

Only last year short, swart Senor Don Carlos Guillermo Davila, potent Chilean publisher, was hobnobbing in Washington with President Hoover and many another man of property. Senor Davila, as Chilean Ambassador and a leading negotiator in setting up the Chilean-U. S. nitrate trust (Cosach), looked and acted as though he would be the last man on earth to propose State Socialism. Last week he suddenly proposed it to the Chilean people in a bulky manifesto of 20,000 words, was accused of wanting to make himself President by a coup d'etat.

Senor Davila ceased to be Ambassador and returned to Santiago when the Chilean Government of President Carlos Ibanez was upset by a coup d'etat (TIME, Aug 3). Last week the new government of President Agustin Justo tried to suppress the Davila manifesto, stigmatized it as revolutionary. Senor Davila, who thought it best to quit his handsome home and go into hiding, declared in his manifesto, "Present conditions in Chile warrant a trial of State Socialism adapted to our national peculiarities. If we can adopt the useful residue of the French revolution, to mold our primitive political system, without taking a Bastille, without decapitating a king, without bloody tribunals, has not the moment arrived to try what demonstrates itself to be utilizable, without having to march on Rome, and without the ten years of suffering experienced by the Russian people?

"At this moment the Chilean Government can step in and take over all means of production and distribution without stepping outside the bounds laid down by the present Chilean Constitution. I urge that Chilean people adopt Socialism without Revolution."

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