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Brian Kilmartin, bald, bony, hawk-featured tenant farmer on the hills above the village of Crom; his sons Michael and Martin, and Martin's newlywed wife Mary, are the principal characters. The story starts the year before the famine when the blight touched a tithe of the crop with the first dapplings of disaster. The damage was small that year, but it was enough to make the Kilmartins draw in their belts a little. Potatoes (dug fresh from the ground in summer, stored in fern-lined earthen pits through the winter; served boiled, with a bowlful of salt water...
Mexico's sleepy old CROM (Regional Confederation of Mexican Labor), whose head, Luis Morones, is a good friend of A. F. of L.'s William Green, revived sufficiently to snipe at Leader Toledano as a "Communist." This has been common Mexican talk ever since his union friends gave Toledano, a dapper intellectual, a trip to Russia to study the Soviet scheme. Leader Toledano returned first-class with the news that he had not been converted to Communism. But last week the news that Mexican Trotskyists were agitating to turn his oil strike into a general strike was enough...
Speedily the President made reply. He recalled that in his inaugural address (TIME, Dec. 10) he had pledged himself to uphold the right of free speech and therefore could not muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...most Mexicans this was interpreted that the Crom had declared political war on the Obregonistas or agrarian party-the party of President Fortes Gil. Simultaneously it became known that Ex-President Calles had been elected Honorary President of the Crom, thus looming in the role of a crony of Crom President Luis Morones. The shattering effect of this news upon Obregonistas may be judged from the fact that their various party groups had pledged united allegiance, only last fortnight, to the new Great National Revolutionary Party headed by Ex-President Calles. That night possibilities were aired and thrashed into...
...sheer frenzy and unprintable vilification of debate in the Senate was barely eclipsed by that in the House. Deputy Manuel Mijares shrieked: "Morones is a octopus sucking the blood of the laboring classes, vulturing and gorging on the dupes who have elected him President of the Crom!" Deputy Aurelio Manrique began by calling President Calles a Judas and worked down through comparisons which finally became obscene. Senator Lauro C. Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio...