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South of the Border. After seven days, the trip's secrecy was lifted. Franklin Roosevelt was nearing the Mexican border for his appointed visit with Mexico's President Avila Camacho. At Fort Worth Eleanor Roosevelt got aboard. Southern Governors, who intensely dislike her outspoken views on the race question, had welcomed her earlier absence...
Monterrey had known for five days that it was to have an important visitor. As Franklin Roosevelt rode through the pennant-bedecked streets, señoritas threw flowers and confetti from the balconies. That night, he and Avila Camacho sat down to a seven-course dinner. While Eleanor Roosevelt tried her newly learned Spanish on Señora Camacho, the two Presidents conversed through an interpreter. Then they rose to address their countries by radio. Their speeches were filled with Good Neighborliness, but nothing much else...
Next day, on the 107th anniversary of the Battle of San Jacinto, in which Sam Houston had trounced the Mexicans and assured Texas' independence, Avila Camacho returned the visit by accompanying Franklin Roosevelt to Corpus Christi. After Avila Camacho left, Franklin Roosevelt's movements, free of military censorship for 24 hours, were again shrouded in secrecy...
...self-made darkness this Tuesday, revealed himself in Mexico. He had toured the Southern states, visited a Marine base, a WAAC training center and five Army posts, talked to various Southern Democratic Governors. Then he had crossed the border into Mexico for a conference with President Avila Camacho at Monterrey. It was the first time since 1909 that heads of the two republics had met face to face. Tuesday evening they went on the air for a joint broadcast...
That made sense. So did Avila Camacho, sanely serving a land which in the past had prided itself on being "close to music and madness...