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Walking like Agag in the sight of the Lord, delicately, Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores, apostolic delegate, senior Archbishop of Mexico, and Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico, still jockeyed last week for a final settlement of Mexico's religious problem. Conferences progressed but neither side would make a definite statement...
...Mexican Hierarchy. The venerable prelate, because of violent trouble between Church and State, had left Mexico a year before. Now, as delegate of a Pope who not only is Vicar of Christ but also a free sovereign, he was returning to discuss with Mexico's President Portes Gil the possible soothing of those troubles. Probably the Archbishop and the Ambassador talked. Possibly the Ambassador, as a U. S. Statesman, said things which pleased the Archbishop about the U. S. attitude toward the Church-and-State problem. Further assurance of significant train-talk was the fact that at San Antonio...
...Saturnino Cedillo's grim forces continued to advance against him through the State of Jalisco. Among the corpses after one engagement was found the body of the Catholic General. Elated, General Cedillo wired President Fortes Gil that he would have the State of Jalisco wiped clean of Catholic rebels in ten days...
More and more stringent grow the drink laws of teetotaling Emilio Portes Gil, President of Mexico. Those who believed that his temperance campaign would be merely a "plan of persuasion and education against drink" were shaken by a bill he signed last week. By it the police were empowered to close instantly and forever any saloon, cabaret or liquor shop where "scandalous conduct" is reported. Worried publicans bit their nails in anxiety over what the police might consider "scandalous conduct...
...Mexico's religious "problem" moved another step nearer solution last week with the Vatican's appointment of Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flores as Apostolic Delegate to negotiate with President Portes Gil (TIME...