The Associated Press said today in a Santiago dispatch that the six Radical members of Chile’s Popular Front Cabinet had presented their resignations to President Pedro Aguirra Cerda, himself a member of the Radical Party, reportedly as a result of a disagreement over the report of a presidential investigation committee which charged “existence of fraud” in the entry of Jewish refugees.
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