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Call to Arms. Stage-wise Almazánistas picked up their lines. While Government forces hunted its secret meeting place, the rump Congress whipped out a manifesto of its own. Reiterating Almazán's charges of Communism, it thought up some new angles, accused the Government's PRM (Party of the Mexican Revolution) of 12,000 political murders, among other crimes, concluded with a call to arms against Cárdenas...
...till now the complacent Cárdenas-Camachistas had busily pooh-poohed any danger of revolution. Government troops were patrolling highways, keeping a close watch on airports and railroads as a check on Almazánista movements. New troops were reported on their way to reinforce the 10,000 already in the capital. Graciano Sanchez had declared 80,000 trained members of his National Confederation of Peasants were ready to take up their rifles in support of Cárdenas and Avila Camacho...
...even for them. The constant attacks on Cárdenas, coupled with an almost total disregard of his would-be successor, meant clearly that a case for revolt was being built up and that, if it came, it would come soon-before Cárdenas leaves office in December. Almazánista leaders were hurriedly subpoenaed, ordered to appear before the First District Criminal Court of Mexico City on charges of sedition and "criminal provocation." The Almazánistas countered by preparing written declarations to be presented at the hearings instead. Outsmarted, the Camacho headquarters hastily resumed its former position...
This all's-well fiction continued to crumble as reports, vigorously denied by Cárdenas spokesmen, poured in from the provinces. Four men were killed in a skirmish in the northern state of Durango. A train was reported held up near Almazán's Monterrey stronghold. Armed men boarded a ship in Veracruz, seized stores of frozen meat from Argentina. A hurried visit to the capital by the military commander of Chiapas started a flood of rumors that trouble was brewing in the south...
North of the Border. All week long a stream of Almazán followers moved north through Mexico, crossed into the U. S. at Laredo and Brownsville, poured into San Antonio, whose 90,000 Mexicans stood almost solidly for Almazán. Thirty years ago onetime President Francisco Madero used this same town as a jumping-off place for the revolution which carried him to power...