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...border. The Mexican Army has a peacetime strength of 56,000, which can be increased to 150,000 in war. It also has 400 generals (as a legacy from frequent revolutions), ranked by General Jesus Augustin Castro, who fought under Carranza and succeeded President-Elect Manuel Avila Camacho as Minister of National Defense. The Mexican Air Force has 90 planes, 700 men. Potential man power in Mexico runs as high as 1,500,000. The Artillery uses foreign pieces, mostly obsolete, but Mexico makes its own rifles (Mosquetons) and machine guns (Mendozas). The Army has one tank company (six tanks...
Akin to the feelings of the persecuted early Christians when Constantine suddenly announced his conversion was the feeling of Mexico's long-harassed Roman Catholics when President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho proclaimed several weeks ago: Soy creyente ("I am a believer...
With less than a month to go before his inauguration on Dec. i, Avila Camacho's confession of faith has helped to minimize the moral support given to his conservative rival, General Juan Andreu Almazan, by Mexican Catholics...
Like Henry IV, who believed France was worth a Mass, Avila Camacho may have believed that Mexico was worth a confession of faith. But whatever its motive, it was the most reassuring phrase Mexican Catholics had heard in a generation, for it foretold an end to an era of tribulation. Already Catholics have openly begun to rebuild ruined churches. Soon to take place at Campeche is a Eucharistic Congress, including outside processions (although priests are legally forbidden to wear clerical garb in public)-things which have not been allowed in Mexico for 30 years...
Unlike the bulk of his fellow politicos, Avila Camacho has always been a pretty good Catholic, goes to church on occasion...