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...broad Paseo de la Reforma swept a noisy mob: partisans of Presidential Candidate Miguel Aleman. On their shoulders they bore a black coffin emblazoned in big white letters with the name of former Foreign Minister Ezequiel Padilla, new and rival entry in the Mexican Presidential campaign. Before Alemán's mansion headquarters the paraders stopped, lowered the coffin. Then they set it on fire. With elections still ten months away, the shouting had already begun. Said cynical observers of Mexico's politics: the shooting may be expected momentarily...
...term (1934-40), Cárdenas influenced the presidential election, but did not impose a candidate on the nation. Now Avila Camacho reportedly was trying to impose Miguel Alemán, former Minister of the Interior. Mexicans concluded that Cárdenas' hatred of imposition might be the key to his resignation...
...quarter of Paraguay's capital, Asunción, there was an atmosphere of uncommon agitation last week. Ragged newsboys chewing wild oranges filled the streets, shouting thickly "Votación National!" Huge posters announced the Revolutión Nacionalista Paraguaya. Beswastikaed cops patrolled the streets. To the Colegio Alemán continually went little groups of three or four ragged, sometimes barefoot, men, solicitously escorted by well-dressed attendants who passed them inside and went forth again to seek other groups. The Colegio Alemán is one of ten electoral centers in San Roque, and in Paraguay...
...machine bosses of Mexico, tough, realistic, ruthless politicians with no particular political bias, but with a great yen to build things, run things efficiently and just incidentally do a spot of getting. Also around Avila Camacho have gathered a group of brash young conservatives typified by Miguel Alemán, 36, Governor of Vera Cruz...
...violently anti-U. S. weekly Timon, financed by him, folded up, and Theodore Schuhmacher, the publisher of a new Nazi propaganda daily, Diario Alemán, went into hiding. In his first number Nazi Schuhmacher had urged Mexico to join Germany against the U. S., promising her the Southwest and California as spoils...