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Mexico broke diplomatic relations with the Axis, moved troops (with U.S. permission) across Arizona to Lower California's west coast, transferred gunboats from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. From President Manuel Avila Camacho came a philosophical summary that might well have originated in one or all of the 21 Americas...
Next Ambassador Castillo Nájera moved his queen-oil. Mexico needed money, trade stabilization, a general economic overhauling. The U.S. needed a powerful demonstration of hemisphere solidarity. President Manuel Avila Camacho needed a big deal to back up his strong anti-Axis stand, his appeals for U.S. collaboration. His Minister of Foreign Affairs, suave Dr. Ezequiel Padilla, known as Narciso Negro (black narcissus) for his elegance, needed a triumph to swing Mexico's foreign policy back to close relations with Britain and the U.S. One thing stood in the way-oil. Between the $175,000,000 at which...
...when news hit Mexico City that an agreement had been reached, Mexicans were jubilant. From all over the Republic congratulatory telegrams poured in to Foreign Minister Padilla. Former President Cárdenas sent his hearty radical blessings to moderate Avila Camacho. Minister Padilla-who was being toasted by the British for having resumed British-Mexican relations-found himself the man of a Mexican hour. Avila Camacho was hailed in the Senate as the liberator of his people. Businessmen expected increased confidence, an influx of foreign capital, an era of prosperity, a boom. Economists said that Mexico's industrialization would...
...pyramids bigger than those in Egypt ... ate limes stuffed with coconut . . . found that Mexico is the country where the letter 'x' is pronounced three different ways... and where during one civic riot the taxicabs charged mounted cavalry like tanks-and won." He also talked to President Manuel Avila Camacho, who is "about as colorful as a slab of halibut," but "steady, cautious and efficient." In Mexico Gunther shed some common U.S. illusions: 1) that Mexican Presidential terms usually end with assassination (there are seven ex-Presidents living in Mexico today); 2) that all Mexican Governments are overthrown...
...compared to 46,500,000 bbl. in the last pre-expropriation year. Exploration has almost stopped. Some of the movable equipment has been shipped to Japan for scrap, in exchange for the kind of ready cash that used to pour in from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find U.S. oil know-how and oil capital useful-if only a way could be figured to save the face he must turn to his anti-gringo voters. One such face-saver would be a public admission on U.S. oilmen's part that they could have behaved more simpaticamente...