Word: almaz
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...display of mute, invisible facts and forces were gathered into bald proximity. The persistent, patient rapping of Japan at the doors of French Indo-China (see p. 33) became really loud only when set near the ticking of the Balkans' time bomb (see p. 34); Almazán and Avila Camacho staring at each other angrily in Mexico (see p. 39), Smuts and Herzog doing the same in South Africa-these minor cockfights became significant potentials when juxtaposed. The shadow of Russia creeping again on Finland (see p. 39) turned from red to black when superimposed on the shadow...
...even as he spoke a second Congress met in secret, duly proclaimed itself legally elected, and two days later declared General Juan Andreu Almazán the next President. To clinch its claims it went even further. Finding Cárdenas in violation of the Constitution for "using public force to impose Avila Camacho and by rendering his last address before a congress of usurpation," it named its own substitute, General Hector F. López, to fill out the remainder of his term...
...General Almazán was obviously getting ready to push the shaky civil peace a notch closer to open war. Ever since election day he had left his followers dangling and disorganized while he "vacationed" in Havana, then in Guatemala. Fortnight ago he was still on tour, turned up in Mobile, two days later in Baltimore, where he took a modest apartment on quiet 32nd Street with his wife and 17-year-old daughter. He insisted that he was just a tourist. He visited friends, walked in Wyman Park, went to the movies, read U. S. and Mexican newspapers, answered...
...days after his rebellious Congress had convened, General Almazán went into action. He rushed to Manhattan, where he could get a good press, ripped off a fiery statement drubbing the Cárdenas-Camachistas up & down the line. He accused them of consorting with Communism, of falsifying the election returns, of failing to improve domestic conditions "after six years of short cuts to Utopia." Shrewdly he hinted opposition to the confiscation of U. S. interests in Mexico. Then, in ringing defiance, he gave his followers their cue: "The people of Mexico are sick of racketeer government-sick...
Squeeze-Out? Meanwhile Army and civil officials were removed from high posts or shifted from important centres. Others, including Mexico's air ace General Alfredo Lezama, were arrested. Almazán-istas were dismissed from key posts in the telegraph, radio and telephone services. Political circles buzzed over a rumor that General Francisco J. Mugica, close personal friend of General Almazán, had been invited by U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels for a long conversation. General Mugica had been prominently mentioned as a compromise President to break the present deadlock...