Word: camachos
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Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...
...formal statement from President Manuel Avila Camacho's office explained that "Mexico is actively working with the United States armed forces in maintaining control north of the Panama Canal and south of the Rio Grande." It added that Mexican air patrols are operating with U.S. patrols on the West Coast...
Nation United. At home Avila Camacho continued to press, with obvious success, his campaign to unite the people behind the U.S. Pro-Axis sentiment waned visibly as university groups ceased heretofore open pro-Nazi activities. Liberal elements looked approvingly on General Cárdenas' appointment...
Mexico broke diplomatic relations with the Axis, moved troops (with U.S. permission) across Arizona to Lower California's west coast, transferred gunboats from the Gulf of Mexico to the Pacific. From President Manuel Avila Camacho came a philosophical summary that might well have originated in one or all of the 21 Americas...
...when news hit Mexico City that an agreement had been reached, Mexicans were jubilant. From all over the Republic congratulatory telegrams poured in to Foreign Minister Padilla. Former President Cárdenas sent his hearty radical blessings to moderate Avila Camacho. Minister Padilla-who was being toasted by the British for having resumed British-Mexican relations-found himself the man of a Mexican hour. Avila Camacho was hailed in the Senate as the liberator of his people. Businessmen expected increased confidence, an influx of foreign capital, an era of prosperity, a boom. Economists said that Mexico's industrialization would...