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With these words, endorsed by a vote of approval in Mexico's Congress, the new administration of President Manuel Avila Camacho made it clear that the long-awaited mutual-defense pact between Mexico and the U. S. will soon be concluded. In spite of some opposition from the press and public, last week even the left-wing Mexican Federation of Labor (CTM) approved the administration's program of continental defense...
...third anniversary of Mexico's expropriation of foreign-owned oil properties, celebrated in Mexico as a national holiday. Usually an excuse for demonstrations against Yankee imperialism, the day passed without serious incident this year. Workers paraded in the great square outside the National Palace, while inscrutable President Manuel Avila Camacho stood on the balcony with a guard of honor, waving his hand, smiling with the slightly grim air of a man who wanted no more nonsense...
...even Lombardo's exit was spoiled. Three days after his speech, President Avila Camacho put in a surprise appearance at the convention, neatly stole the show. Marching down the aisle to the blare of a truck-drivers' band, he mounted the platform, embraced his townsman Lombardo, then turned and lectured...
...conscious defender of the workers' conquests and oppose groups attempting to discredit them." But the workers, he went on, must go forward with the country, obey the laws, learn discipline, above all cooperate with the Government. Scarcely skin-deep under the rhetoric was the threat that Avila Camacho would allow no actions of labor to smother the boomlet in Mexican business that has popped since his inauguration. But surprisingly enough the conservative press saw in the speech a move to the left on the President's part...
Preoccupied delegates voted at the convention's end to appoint Velazquez Secretary General. But their hearts were not in it. All were too busy digesting the knowledge that President Avila Camacho would stand no nonsense from labor, wondering about labor's next move...