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Word: ejercito (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1941-1941
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...plan and nature of the maneuvers, which employed 11,000 troops for a fortnight, was a key to the new destiny of the Ejercito Mexicano. The imagined danger was not an uprising, not a local revolt: a foreign power was supposed to be at tempting to invade Mexico. Significantly the invasion was supposed to come from Mexico's east coast, facing the stormy Caribbean and stormier Europe, rather than the west coast, which is said to have been thoroughly explored by swarms of Japanese "fishermen." A "Red" Army was detailed to defend the 6,000-foot great central plateau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: New Army | 5/19/1941 | See Source »

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