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...which both sides kept their opponents away from the ballots, in which electioneers used tear gas and brickbats and lead. So controversial was his right to claim the Presidency that the real campaigning did not begin until after the election. For a time it looked as if General Almazán would surely assert his right in the old-fashioned Mexican way, by revolt...
...side door before he was noticed. Members of the Embassy staff and newspapermen waited on the front steps. LIFE photographer Carl Mydans wandered into the crowd and snapped some pictures. The groups began mumbling a chant, which gradually grew to not "Viva Wallace," not "Viva Avila Camacho," but "Viva Almazán." This was a crowd of supporters of the defeated Presidential candidate, protesting U. S. recognition of Avila Camacho...
...Lieut. Colonel Gordon H. McCoy to sock on the chin and was flattened by the colonel for his pains. There were indications that the riot was not altogether spontaneous. U. S. Intelligencers on the spot positively identified three of the leading Mexico City German agents circulating in the crowd. Almazán himself, who had just flown to Mexico City and renounced his claims to the Presidency, said later: "I have recommended to my friends that they refrain from acts of violence. My sincere friends have adhered to this recommendation...
Flirtation, he knew, had its limits. President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán was still insisting last week that he would take office Dec. 1, still declaring, "I will have the unanimous support of all the people...
...removing Lombardo, President Cárdenas implemented General Avila Camacho's promise to rid Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...