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Armchair strategists wondered if the Chiapas trouble was a feint to draw Government strength from the North, where Almazanismo is stronger. Watchful President Cardenas sent his stanch supporter, General Jesus Gutierrez Casares, down to Chiapas to find out. General Manuel Avila Camacho, who will succeed General Cardenas as President on Dec.1, postponed his scheduled departure for Washington until the revolt spread or dried...
...border. The Mexican Army has a peacetime strength of 56,000, which can be increased to 150,000 in war. It also has 400 generals (as a legacy from frequent revolutions), ranked by General Jesus Augustin Castro, who fought under Carranza and succeeded President-Elect Manuel Avila Camacho as Minister of National Defense. The Mexican Air Force has 90 planes, 700 men. Potential man power in Mexico runs as high as 1,500,000. The Artillery uses foreign pieces, mostly obsolete, but Mexico makes its own rifles (Mosquetons) and machine guns (Mendozas). The Army has one tank company (six tanks...
Akin to the feelings of the persecuted early Christians when Constantine suddenly announced his conversion was the feeling of Mexico's long-harassed Roman Catholics when President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho proclaimed several weeks ago: Soy creyente ("I am a believer...
...Almazanista liaison press agent between those two countries. After two months' work, Frank Gibler quit, alleging that instead of salary his boss was paying him valueless Almazan election bonds. The Government Labor Board of Conciliation and Arbitration, affectionately anxious to support Government Candidate Maximino Avila Camacho and harass his opponent Almazan, awarded Frank Gibler salary not only for the two months he claimed, but for the entire period of nearly eleven months from the day he was hired until election day. Furthermore, in order that Frank Gibler might really be paid, the Board last week ordered the estate with...
...removing Lombardo, President Cárdenas implemented General Avila Camacho's promise to rid Mexican politics of Communist domination. Avila Camacho had already matched General Almazán's other claims to conservatism by guaranteeing security to both Mexican and foreign investors, announcing himself a good Catholic. He was now in a position to match Almazán's program point for point, could offer the further inducement of accomplishing it without revolution...