Word: camacho
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...last week, spoke Manuel Avila Camacho, President of Mexico, in his opening message to Mexico's Congress. It took three hours and a half to read the speech. For two hours the President read it himself. Then he passed the bulky manuscript to his private secretary, mopped his brow, sat down to recuperate. After an hour's rest he took over once more and read...
...this mammoth document were numerous references to Mexico's friendly relations with the U.S., Mexico's willingness to welcome foreign capital, Mexico's place in Hemisphere defense. But what made foreign diplomats in the gallery, including U.S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels, sit up and listen was Manuel Camacho's hint that a comprehensive economic agreement may soon be reached between the U.S. and Mexico...
...Mexico City President Manuel Avila Camacho's Government, following U.S. example, abruptly severed commercial ties by ordering all 15 German consulates in Mexico closed by Sept. 1, summoning home Mexican consuls from German-held territory on the same date. Earlier the Nazis had requested the recall of the Mexican Vice Consul in Paris and had closed honorary consular offices in Norway, Holland, Belgium and France, but Mexico's reprisal was stiffer than bargained...
...Japanese owners, and to facilitate the Chinese exchange problem. Big chore ahead: to close the entire Hemisphere to the Japanese. Acting Secretary of State Sumner Welles this week intimated that the U.S. would welcome parallel economic measures by other American nations against Japan. Mexico's President Manuel Avila Camacho warned that an attack on any other American country might lead to Mexico's entry into the war. The Hemisphere was apparently falling into line behind U.S. policy. The U.S. and the Japanese were now face to face at the shortest distance yet. Each had encircled the other...
Last week the Mexican Consul General in Manhattan announced a deal whereby 1) millions of pesos of native capital went to work in Mexico, encouraged by the new friendly atmosphere of the Avila Camacho regime, 2) Mexico took a big step toward her own industrialization, 3) Japan lost another customer in the Western Hemisphere, 4) a Massachusetts textile firm sold a batch of idle machinery...