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...Mexico. As a young politician, Padilla well remembered that the U.S. in 1846 fought Mexico over the uncertain Texas boundary and ended by taking a third of Mexico's territory, that it got another piece (by purchase) in 1853, that in 1914 it landed Marines at Vera Cruz, that it sent Black Jack Pershing into Mexico to chase Villa in 1916-all humiliations imposed by a big neighbor on a smaller...
...shoreline of Palos Verdes (next door to vital San Pedro harbor), where landing parties could sneak in undetected, under the shadow of towering cliffs, on to a number of good beaches. Other sound reasons were suggested by the case of Alien George Makamura, in whose seaside home at Santa Cruz FBI men found 69 great crates of signal rockets and colored flares...
...orders would also play hob with West Coast agriculture. In the Los Angeles area, Japanese produce more than half the truck crops?especially celery, spinach, beets, string beans?vegetables which take infinite work and patience. In Santa Cruz County, a $500,000 crop of sprouts and artichokes awaited harvesting by Italians. Most of California's tomato crop, which accounts for a fourth of U.S. canned tomatoes, has been grown by Japanese farmers...
...there are potential base sites for joint U.S. -Mexican use: La Paz, offering a good, sheltered bay on the Gulf of California, with Magdalena similarly situated on the Pacific. Potentialities farther south are even more significant: The port of Salina Cruz possesses the only coastal dry dock from San Francisco to Panama, also has a fueling station. The fine harbor at Acapulco has a repair base, Guaymas a repair yard. Manzanillo is another fueling station...
...Eduardo Cruz-Coke Lassabe, an able doctor and a onetime Minister of Health and Social Welfare, running as an independent Conservative. Though his drafting of Chile's streamlined preventive-medicine law has made him a popular figure, he seemed to have little chance for the Presidency...