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Prodded by square-jawed Fidel Velázquez, Secretary General of the Mexican Workers Confederation, the Chamber of Deputies last month demanded that President Manuel Avila Camacho dissolve the Sinarquista Union, whose blind discipline was all too reminiscent of the Nazis. Under one Salvador Abascal its membership had grown to at least 200,000 trained men before Abascal lost his job for talking too much. How long, the Chamber of Deputies asked, could Mexican democracy tolerate a wellarmed, anti-democratic party which...
Soft-voiced, sentimental Manuel Avila Camacho, the man of harmony, sat between doddering Ezequiel Chávez and post-reactionary González Martinez. At the same table were ex-Fascist José Vasconcelos, onetime Presidents Pascual Ortiz Rubio (his qualifications for entry: love poems scribbled in youth) and bull-necked Portes Gil. There was almost no talk of politics; the wine and the company prompted sublimer subjects...
Mexico, entering its third year under Avila Camacho's rule, had found that he had fulfilled his promises made on election eve after a bloody campaign (TIME, Dec. 9, 1940). He and war had brought unity; he had pacified both Left and Right; he had brought back the Church (some thought to too great power). He had not hugged the Indians to death, but he had paid attention to their problems, had undertaken the redemption of the poverty-racked Otomi Indians of Hidalgo State, overlooked even by Cardenas. Under his rule collaboration with the U.S. was closer than Mexico...
...Lombardo Toledano, Leftist labor leader, was fighting for control of the powerful CTM (Mexico's C.I.O.) against Fidel Velasquez, its secretary and representative of moderation. Avila Camacho's hand, as usual, was taking the edge off the controversy: betting odds favored Velasquez...
...able Correspondent Betty Kirk (Covering the Mexican Front) observed, Mexico had found nationalism under Avila Camacho and war. Mexico's wholehearted war effort was testified to last week by the STational Defense Ministry. Summing up the military achievement, the Ministry forecast that by the end of next year 1,600,000 Mexicans will have had military training, the bulk of them as a citizens' militia, with weekly practice sessions. Day by day thousands of Mexicans not yet eligible for induction are volunteering. Consignments of equipment are arriving from the U.S. The Mexicans have already found a name...