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...insurrection which we?or rather which General Calles has just suppressed?," said President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico last week, "will prove, I am sure, to have been highly beneficial to the country...
...Stanley Baldwin, too, for good measure. Since Chinese newspapers have told that "the Quaker in the White House" recently allowed 10,000 rifles and 10 million rounds of ammunition to be sold to Mexico (TIME, March 18), the request of President Chiang was perhaps not illogical. He, like President Emilio Portes Gil of Mexico, is engaged in putting down a revolution, and why should not Washington and London help? In so far as the U. S. State Department made any reply, it was intimated to correspondents that unless U. S. lives or property should be endangered by the newest Chinese...
...thus avoided the desecration of bursting open a church. Entering the sacred edifice with loud, exultant hosannahs and cries of "Christ is King" they sat down and soon partook of the feast of the Eucharist. Untroubled by the transitory rebel occupation of Cocula, General Calles wired to President Emilio Portes Gil: "I have the honor to inform you that the traitor Escobar (rebel generalissimo) continues to flee without fighting, and we continue our advance...
...course it was all in vain. President Herbert Hoover had long since cast his sympathies against the rebels and on the side of squarejawed, gnarled-fisted President of Mexico Senor Emilio Portes Gil. Just to make assurance doubly ironclad, Secretary of State Frank Billings Kellogg told correspondents that "under no circumstances" would the State Department recognize the soi-disant and really nonexistent Valenzuela government...
There is, of course, an important religious element in the present Mexican situation. The government consists of the anti-Catholic, broadly Socialist and efficiently militant forces of President Emilio Fortes Gil and General Plutarco Elias Calles?a burly, bull-necked fighter who would certainly have the sympathy of God Mexitl. Arrayed against the government are the avowedly pro-Catholic, Conservative, and less efficiently militant forces of Presidential Candidate Gilberto Valenzuela, called by his enemies El Capitan de los Cristeros (TIME, March...