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...Mexico's straw-hatted peasants, although even Pius XI may not be sure what antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism. But the men who run things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week of Mexico's new young Provisional President Abelardo L. Rodriguez: "In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the encyclical . . . whose tone does not surprise us because methods filled with falsehood against this country are characteristic of the Papacy. . . . "In answer to the open incitation made to the clergy to provoke agitation, I declare that...
...prefers nowadays to make other men Presidents, let them take the risks. In 1929 few Mexicans had ever heard of their Great Engineer, but General Calles had no trouble whatsoever getting him elected. Last week he made a new President almost overnight, made a young one this time, General Abelardo Rodriquez...
...speeches, the Provisional President motored out to General Calles' ranch, got his orders. To date Boss Calles has been broadly friendly to the U. S., mildly hostile to private foreign interests in Mexico, firmly hostile to the Catholic Church. Some years ago he picked Second Lieutenant Abelardo Rodriquez as a good & loyal henchman, secured him rapid promotion to Mexico's highest military rank. General of Division and last year made him War Minister - a supreme mark of trust...
...that petroleum in its early stages closely resembles rubber. His process is to take crude petroleum, mix it with ground sugar cane. This compound is refined, fried in the sun, vulcanized with sulphur.* Compania Hulera Mexicana is capitalized at $115,000, has for directors sub-Secretary of War General Abelardo Rodriquez, Secretary of Industry Aron Saenz, Foreign Secretary Genaro Estrada...
...Abelardo Pacheco, editor of Voz del Pueblo, small but vociferous Nationalist (antiGovernment) Havana weekly, has lately been shocking conservative Cubans by boldly printing what others dare only think about Cuba's horn-spectacled President General Gerardo Machado y Morales, El Gallo (The Rooster): that he is completely subservient to U. S. big business interests, that all serious political opponents are exiled from Cuba, that political prisoners are thrown to the sharks of Havana harbor from a chute in the Cabana fortress (next to Morro Castle), that though private crime has been spectacularly reduced, political assassination is common...