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William F. Buckley, Jr .
Allende tells us how
The (London) Sunday
Times has an interview with
Salvador Allende, given to
Regis Debray, which is on the
order of publishing an
interview given by Krushchev
to Adzhubei, his son-in-law.
Regis Debray is the young
French revolutionary who
tagged along with the Che
Guevara, got himself caught,
and was sentenced to a great
many years in the cooler, in
which he served for only three
years because the vicissitudes
of Bolivian politics churned up
as president the self same
general who had tracked down
and killed Guevara. Instead of
taking advantage of his
new-found power to order
Debray executed, the general
released him, and he headed -where
else? - to Chile, where
the revolutionary action is.
The interview reflects the
interviewer's desire to get into
the act. Allende is quite willing
to play. But the interview is
more than merely a lovers'
duet, it is an adumbration of
how Allende proposes to
accumulate the power
necessary to impose
"Marxism" on his country.
Listen.
The Resistance
Debray. If they (the
Resistance) go outside the law,
will you also go outside the
law? If they hit out, will you
hit back?
Allende. If they deal us an
illegal blow? We'll return it a
hundredfold, you can be sure
of that.
In order to flavor that,
imagine the following
exchange.
Associated Press. If the
Black Panthers go outside the
law, will you also go outside
the law? If they hit out, will
you hit back?
J. Edgar Hoover. If the
Panthers deal us an illegal
blow; We'll return it a
hundredfold, you can be sure
of that.
And then,
Debray. The estate owners
in Cautin are armed, and are
provoking violent
confrontations with the
workers on the land. There is a
serious amount of arms
smuggling from abroad;
dangerous plots are being
organized. How do you intend
to cope with sedition?
Reactionary violence
Allende. To begin with, we
are going to contain it with
their own laws. Then we shall
meet reactionary violence with
revolutionary violence, because
we know that they are going to
break the rules. For the time
being, to stay within the
bounds of legality, I shall say
this: the situation in Chile is
such that the Constitution can
be changed within the
Constitution, by means of
plebiscites.
Now that, under the
circumstances, is
Reichstag-Fire talk pure and
simple. It is a very old device,
developed by Stalin in his
government's lifestyle. Mao
Tse-tung thrives on it. Consider
the episode to which Debray
alluded.
In Cautin province in the
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Elections
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south, revolutionary bandits
led by members of the MIR (a
left -revolutionary sect which
might be compared to our own
SDS) have in recent weeks
swashbuckled their way into
farms large and small, ordering
the owners out of their own
living rooms, distributing the
land there and then to the
"peasants," and sitting down
and loving it all. There is not a
trace of legality in what they
have done, not a hint of it.
Allende's responsibility as chief
executive is to enforce the law,
but he is afraid of the
MIRistas, whose support he
desires for the upcoming
municipal elections. So. . .the
story is propagated that the
farmers are in revolt against the
law, and are being put down by
brave defenders of the law.
Plebiscite
That is how Allende has
charted it. He still has a
bourgeois' attachment for the
law, so that he is indisposed to
flout it directlv. Better to set
fire to the Reichstag, and
pretend that the resistance did
it, which then becomes
grounds for going out and
hanging them: and, in
Allende's words, hitting them
back "a hundredfold."
Granted, one can always
override the Constitution by
plebiscite. "If we put forward a
bill and Congress rejects it, we
invoke the plebiscite. I'll give
you an example: we proposed
that there should no longer be
two houses in Congress, the
proposal was rejected by
Congress, we held a
referendum and won. We now
have a single house."
Mr. Allende is in the great
tradition of Stalin's Vishinsky,
who had never left the Soviet
Union-except on the one
occasion when he travelled to
Lithuania during the thirties,
went to sleep that night at the
principal hotel, and - as he
liked to put it, with a heavy
wink "when I woke up,
suddenly I discovered I was in
Russia!" During the midnight
hours he had organized the
annexation of the Baltic states.
When the Chileans wake up,
suddenly they are going to
discover that they're in Russia.
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TUESDAY, MARCH 23, 1971