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...generalissimo of Mexico's war on the Catholic Church, Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, was last week in a Los Angeles hospital recovering from an operation on his gall bladder. The leader of the Church's counterattack, fat, sloe-eyed Archbishop Pascual Diaz, sat grimly in the Archiepiscopal Palace in Mexico City. While the Government persecuted his flock, the Primate of All Mexico, who is a pure Jalisco Indian, held in reserve one dread (to Catholics) weapon, the awful word of excommunication, which he may pronounce, the Pope may confirm...
...goes the formula of the excommunication, "forced by the pressure of his contumacy, we excommunicate him with these words, and we proclaim him to be avoided until he shall have fulfilled that which is ordered so his soul may be saved on the Day of Judgment." Last week Archbishop Diaz brandished this monstrous threat at Mexican traitors to the Church. He declared liable to excommunication...
Said Mexico's Big Boss, onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles: "I regard the expulsion of archbishops and bishops as necessary. . . . They are organizing in preparation for a movement'' (i. e. revolution). Back cracked Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico, that the clergy were doing no such thing, but that Catholics must make every effort within the law "to preserve the immutable principles of justice and morality...
Into Mr. Hart's office soon marched the Military Governor of Havana Province, grim Major Diaz Calderon, escorting a Cuban engineer, Eduardo Montoulieu. whom President Mendieta had appointed Government Interventor in charge of Cuban Telephone. They demanded Mr. Hart's resignation. He demanded some sort of assurance from the Cuban Government that they were not attempting outright confiscation. Doors were closed and a mighty haggle ensued...
Also ahead of the ruck was a candidate with an astonishing record. He was John C. ("Iron Jack") Walton. Engine driver for Mexican President Porfirio Diaz in revolutionary times, he and a jazz band in 1922 got a larger majority of votes for Governor than had ever before been received. Thereupon "Iron Jack" became embroiled in a Ku Klux Klan scandal and was thrown out of office for corruption ten months after he was inducted. In spite of a mail fraud indictment three years ago, a repentant citizenry elected him State Corporation Commissioner...