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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...
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...
...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...
...went into action, killing two and wounding seven. The peons were in a gay mood. Some of them did not know that a new Government Congress was to be installed next day and that they were to serve as shock troops should the numerous followers of defeated Candidate Juan Andreu Almazán attempt to interfere...
...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...