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...prospect was unnerving, even for a seasoned cultivator of U.S. tribal manners like the State Department's Protocol Division. In March, Mexico had nearly blown Harry Truman's hat off with a welcome heard round the hemisphere. This week, Mexican President Miguel Aleman was due north on a return call. To keep U.S. face, Washington's plain citizens would have to step out of character and match, or better, the Mexican enthusiasm. The Protocol Division's patient, able Stanley Woodward was worried. He called on the Army, Navy, Marines, school officials, the Washington Board of Trade...
...Capital Transit Company agreed to fly small U.S. and Mexican flags from its streetcars and buses; the Pan-American Union donated 250 blow-ups of Mexican scenes for store windows; and signs shouting "Viva Mexico," "Welcome President Aleman," and "Bienvenido Don Miguel" were readied for hanging on lampposts. The Fire Department planned to arch two 100-ft. ladders in an inverted V over the Memorial Bridge, deck them in the red, white and green of Mexico, tack on huge pictures of President Aleman, and hang a giant Mexican flag from the point of the V. Some 18 bands were assigned...
President Truman had already sent his personal plane, the Sacred Cow, to Mexico City for President Aleman, and arranged to have an escort of twelve 6-293 pick it up at New Orleans. He would greet the Mexican party at the airport with most of his Cabinet, an honor guard from the 82nd Airborne Division and a 21-gun salute. President Aleman would address a joint session of the Congress, stay at least one night at the White House, travel to Mount Vernon on the presidential yacht Williams burg, and use the presidential Pullman for a trip to New York...
...Mexico had shown its real stuff in the way it met its crisis. Soon after infection was discovered last year, and after the U.S. had slammed the door on Mexican cattle imports, the Government went decisively to war (TIME, March 3). President Miguel Aleman named himself head of the Anti-Aftosa Committee. Army, Navy and Agriculture departments, working with U.S. Department of Agriculture experts (the U.S. appropriated $9,000,000 to help Mexico in the fight), quarantined infected areas. Then the slaughter began, widening out into new areas as infection spread...
This week Adolfo Orive de Alba, President Aleman's Minister of Hydraulic Resources, is deep in this tierra caliente, finding suitable spots for work camps and hospitals to shelter and care for an army of laborers. Four huge dams will be built across the Papaloapan's tributaries, creating giant lakes in the shadow of snowcapped Orizaba (18,701 ft.). The twisting Papaloapan itself will be dredged to make a ship channel from Tuxtepec, 149 miles from the Gulf. At Chacaltianguis a canal will be built to link the river with swampy lakes farther north and to provide...