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Weighing the costs and responsibilities of preserving "the honor of the fatherland, the unsullied name of Mexico," President Manuel Avila Camacho asked and won approval of a declaration that a state of war has existed since May 22, the expiration date of a Foreign Office protest demanding "complete satisfaction" and a guarantee of reparations for the sinking of the Mexican freighter Potrero del Llano, torpedoed off the Florida coast. The Chamber of Deputies approved, 183-to-0, the Senate 53-to-0 (with five members absent...
Internally the state of war gives Mexico the opportunity to clean out Axis fifth columny, both political and financial. It also gives President Avila Camacho new powers to tackle the serious economic disruptions brought about by the closing of world export markets and the slowdown on imports...
Nevertheless, though worried and internally divided, the Avila Camacho Cabinet took the next step toward war, summoned a special session of Congress for this week to authorize a formal declaration...
...bearing with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where President Avila Camacho and his ministers went to receive it. Actually the crowd numbered only...
MEXICO CITY--Three explosions, possibly set by saboteurs, sent flames racing through a Mexican tanker loading oil at Tampico today, killing at least four men and injuring 20, as this country awaited only a proclamation by President Avila Camacho to put it formally at war with the Axis...