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Unless the U. S. throws its influence behind Juan Andreu Almazan, contender for the Mexican presidency, Avila Camacho, President Cardena's candidate, is almost certain to come out on top of Mexico's boiling political stew...
...Most of the well informed people whom I met had fatalistic attitude that whatever happens depends on Washington," he said in an interview yesterday. He believes that to avoid the serious civil war which would result if the U. S. supported Almazan, Secretary of State Hull has indicated a slight preference for Camacho, whose party now seems predominant...
...Mexican air that Azcarraga wants to keep tidy has many peculiar aspects. Politics provides one of them. During the recent election General Juan Andreu Almazan was never permitted to fling a single amigos mios into a microphone, although his chief rival. General Manuel Avila Camacho, used XEFO, the 5,000-watt official outlet of Cardenas' Party of the Mexican Revolution. Although Don Juan complained that XEFO was breaking the law prohibiting any station from broadcasting political controversies, the station management pointed out with fine Latin logic that as long as it restricted its mikes to Camacho and withheld them...
Throughout the report Almazan's claims and viewpoints are quoted frequently, those of the opposition never. . . . For all of which I don't give a tinker's damn except for the timing of the article. Our Good-Neighbor policy is urgently necessary to us today...
...means clear that Candidate Almazan was "resentfully repudiated," except by the political machine. Because the political machine of PRM, CTM and Agrarians declared for Avila Camacho does not mean that they went down the line for him. Many observers believe that a good part of the labor vote deserted Avila Camacho on election day. The Agrarian Party to which Reader Fishback refers is allied...