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...Alemán well knows that all this packs a wad of political dynamite. Ex-President Cardenas could fan up hot opposition if the deal smacked of surrender. Soviet-grooved labor leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano, whose powerful Confederation of Mexican Workers recently lost the oil workers' union, might yell "foreign imperialism." The mass of inflammable Mexicans, who associate "Standard" and "Shell" with other indignities like the shelling of Veracruz, might suffer an attack of spontaneous combustion...
Ezequiel Padilla finally shook hands with President-elect Miguel Alemán. The fraud charges would be dropped. Even if there had been occasional sleight of hand in the ballot counting, the final result was too conclusive to doubt: Alemán 1,800,829, Padilla...
President Manuel Avila Camacho, who would step aside for Alemán on Dec. 1, had notably heightened his Government's prestige both at home and abroad by staging the most honest election in Mexico's history...
...rival, Ezequiel Padilla, grandiloquent apostle of international cooperation, traveled on a shoestring. His backers, a few conservative businessmen and some ardent amateurs, could not match the turnouts of Alemán's labor unions and bureaucrats. But those who shouted "Viva!" were truly enthusiastic. Padilla's eloquent speeches attacked traditional Mexican "imposition" of the Government candidate, flayed the Communists, subtly played for Church support. Oldtimers compared Padilla to the U.S.'s William Jennings Bryan -a magnificent orator, an impractical politician. Padilla's outspoken wartime cooperation with the U.S. had not endeared him to the average, nationalist...
Last week both candidates made wind-up statements. Said confident Miguel Alemán: "If I lose I will acknowledge it." No one expected he would have...