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Novelists are sometimes good guessers, sometimes bad. Last month Novelist Arthur Calder-Marshall published a book about revolution in Mexico (The Way to Santiago), with a hero who bore a resemblance to President-reject Juan Andreu Almazan. In Novelist Calder-Marshall's book everybody expected the General to start his revolution on Independence Day (Sept. 16), but nothing happened. The revolt was to begin two weeks later, with the assassination of the President, but no revolution came...
...Mexico City crowds celebrating Independence Day outside the National Palace began shouting for General Almazan. Soon somebody tossed a stone through one of the Palace windows. That was fun and others joined in. Police tried to break up the crowd with tear gas. Next they tried charging the mob on motorcycles. Finally 200 policemen carrying rifles with fixed bayonets marched in. The crowd dispersed, but before that night was over five men had been shot dead. 72 men & women wounded...
...General Almazan was reported to be somewhere near by, either in Texas or in northern Mexico. His "junta" in San Antonio still seemed to be without organization. So feeble were the Almazan efforts to toss the Government out that some haters of President Cardenas in Mexico City hinted they would transfer their allegiance to swart little General Joaquin Amaro, a tough, full-blooded Tarascan Indian who would love to seize power and run Mexico as a dictatorship...
Sweezy believes that Almazan would probably stop the distribution of land, and might return some of the properties to the large landowners; at least that is what the Mexican upperclass expects...
During his stay in Mexico Sweezy saw no evidence that German Nazis were openly supporting Almazan, though he believes that the powerful Spanish Falange, a fascist party which is probably allied with the Nazis, has backed the conservative candidate. Almazan has also received the support of American oil companies, who hoped that he would return their expropriated oil properties...