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...despite the high tension. President Manuel Avila Camacho was really moving very cautiously. To be sure, war would give his rightist Government a chance to "unify" Mexico, extend controls over labor, prices, economic resources, keep the business boom from going hog-wild. He was being urged hard toward war by Foreign Minister Padilla, who saw it as the culmination of his hemispheric policy, and by the great Communist-led labor groups who wanted a crusade against Fascism in alliance with Russia...
Crossed Wires. But President Avila Camacho had to consider Mexico's businessmen, who feared high taxes and the end of their boom. More significantly, Mexican observers wired last week that "there has been no excitement yet . . . among the people. . . it is generally agreed that Mexicans want the Axis defeated, but wish to keep Mexico nonbelligerent . . . 85% of the rank-&-file have no stomach for fighting for Britain and the U.S." The President had to think more than twice about Mexico's rank-&-file, for it was no secret that many of them still fondly recalled the liberal regime...
...with them the body of Engineer Rodolfo Chacon Castro, who had died of wounds in a Miami hospital, moved south from San Antonio, Tex. It was predicted that 100,000 would greet the cortege when it arrived in Mexico City's main square, the Zocalo, where President Avila Camacho and his ministers went to receive it. Actually the crowd numbered only...
Meanwhile in Mexico City, student demonstrators were smashing windows in the German Club, and leftist radicals "stormed" the Deutsches Haus. The Stalinists hastened to make political hay: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, President of the shadowy "Confederation of Workers of Latin America," wrote President Manuel Avila Camacho demanding that Mexico instantly declare formal war on the Axis and seize all Axis citizens' property; the leaders of the Stalinist-controlled C.T.M., biggest Mexican labor federation, demanded...
...peons. For four years of Cárdenas' administration, he was the brilliant, aggressive and fluid leader of Mexican labor. With the help of Cárdenas he formed and headed the restless, left-wing confederation of workers known as the C.T.M. until shortly after Avila Camacho became President of Mexico. Then Lombardo stepped down with the comment: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie." If he is also frequently feared in Mexico it is because of his influence among the workers. He has been called a Communist. He admits that...