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...French forces of Napoleon III and postponed for a year the imposition of rococo Maximilian I as Emperor of Mexico. Last week a Fifth of May parade through the streets of Puebla capped the exercises. Almost 10,000 marched before Mexico's military-minded President General Manuel Avila Camacho, and the parade marked the first public appearance of some new U.S.-made, truck-drawn 75-mm. anti-tank guns...
While President Manuel Avila Camacho rushed troops and supplies to Colima by plane, Mexico set about the methodical task of totting up its damage. Dead were at least 84 people, including 36 at Colima, 27 at Tuxpan in the State of Jalisco. Mexico City miraculously suffered no casualties. Property losses were reckoned at more than $2,000,000. Of these, some $800,000 were in Mexico City...
Later that morning Captain Avila Camacho stopped at a police station to report the shooting. Sympathetic police officers heard his story, released him on his own recognizance. But for Brother Manuel Avila Camacho, striving to give Mexico a just administration, the problem was not so simple...
...young man who had attacked Brother Gabriel was Manuel Cacho Ramirez, 28, son of a well-to-do Mexican merchant. Father Cacho, owner of Mexico City's two Princesa jewelry stores, was also a friend of President Avila Camacho. He sent word to the President, asked that the case be closed without further investigation. For Brother Manuel it must have been a sore temptation: like most Latins, he is devoted to his brothers. But he was President of Mexico. Said Manuel Avila Camacho: "I desire that strict justice be observed...
...Last week, back in high good humor from his first trip below the Rio Grande since Mexico's Government expropriated a lot of foreign property, Mexican Ranch Owner Hearst, who said not one public word against the collectivist Cardenas regime and thus came through into the sunnier Avila Camacho regime with the loss of only 18,000 of his million-plus acres, declared: "They were pretty decent about that. They didn't take any more than was right. After all it is their country." - The Millville, N.J. Board of Trade banqueted well-paunched Defense Commissioner Leon Henderson, elected...