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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...
...beneficial insurrection" is readily explained. The revolt was led openly by several Generals of the Army and Governors of Mexican States (TIME, March 11, et seq.), who had machinated secretly against Plutarco Elias Calles when he was President and later against his staunch friend President Emilio Portes Gil. So highly placed were the insurrectos that until they actually broke out their banners of revolt, nothing could be done to check their plotting. Once they chose to take the field, and lost, their power within the Army and State was broken...
President Portes Gil went on to say last week: "The suppression of the insurrection has destroyed all dissident groups and clears the way for realization of the Government's program of Peace, impartial Democracy and vigorous commercial expansion of the State...
Presently President Portes Gil announced that only $7,500,000 had been spent by the Government in putting down the insurrection. Considerably more than this picayune sum is spent by U. S. housewives in a single season on ripe, red Mexican tomatoes...
...Mexico City, Lieut. Joaquin Garcia Bolanos of the Mexican air force died last week defending the good names of President Portes Gil and U. S. Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow. Returning home late at night, Lieutenant Bolanos saw some rough-looking men pasting up posters insulting to the President and the Ambassador. Lieutenant Bolanos went home and told his father. They returned to the scene, remonstrated. Aviator Bolanos rushed forward and attempted to wrest the offensive posters from one of the men. The billsticker drew a pistol and shot him dead. Despite the sacrifice of Aviator Bolanos, police next morning discovered...