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President Manuel Avila Camacho, in front of a group of his country's flyers, thought the time had come to speak in martial tones. Said he: "To the air forces falls the responsibility for carrying our national colors to the war fronts.. . . You have already shown you want to fight.* . . . I shall consider and determine the possibility that Mexico, in a valiant and virile manner, shall participate in the war-although actually it will only be a symbolic act to raise our flag on the battlefields...
Before the war Texans paid little attention to the bitterness and hatred which their attitude spread below the border. But when wartime labor shortage threatened their crops last year (and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho let it be known that they would get no help from Mexico), they took belated notice. In a broad-brimmed sombrero Governor Coke Stevenson made a tour of Mexico, spreading buttery words, sparring with Mexican newsmen. On his return he organized the Texas Good Neighbor Commission to soften Texas prejudice...
President Manuel Avila Camacho last week told his people and the world that the Mexican Army is "ready to function wherever circumstances may dictate-here on our territory . . . and even away from our territory if for justified motives our allies...
...foreign battlefield (some 11,000 Mexicans are already serving in the U.S. Army). Their actual chances of going abroad were probably less than their readiness to go -as the Brazilians have already learned, the Allied staffs are not anxious to fit small, national units into global plans. President Avila Camacho is evidently aware of the difficulties. Last week, in proffering an M.E.F., he made one stipulation: that it serve under Mexican command, under the Mexican flag...
Employers who violate the wage orders may be punished by jail sentences or Government operation of their plants. Price violators may be jailed or fined. Avila Camacho's difficult task now is to make these decrees work where others failed...