Word: carranza
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doubtful Army between it and the U. S. 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...
Next day Judge Carranza Trujillo committed Trotsky's assassin, pale, dark Frank Jackson, to trial for murder, committed Jackson's girl friend, Sylvia Ageloff, as accessory before the fact. The problem of Mexico City's tough, efficient police was not so much to make them talk as to keep them from being rubbed out before they talked too much...
...With Venustiano Carranza as President in 1915-17, Mexico was a famous centre of pro-German, anti-U. S. intrigue, even conspired with German agents to invade Texas...
Meanwhile the Nazi organization is Mexico's most vociferous exponent of "neutrality as in the days of Carranza."* Chief local firebrand working for Führer Dietrich is the leader of the Vanguardia Nacional, militant Adolfo León Ossorio, who once led a mob assault on the American Embassy, and 200 police had to be called out to protect the premises. He repeats his master's assurances that the U. S. plans to throw Latin America into the European war and then to annex Mexico. Against this menace the only safeguard is close cooperation with Germany...
...quite reassured. Alberto Salinas Carranza, chief of Mexico's aviation, sent a message to Sarabia by air mail: "I shiver at hearing that you intend to return from Washington nonstop. . . . Continue flying with your head and do not permit your heart to intervene. Conserve yourself for our pride, the satisfaction of your family and the envy of the birds...