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...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...
...such appeals to principle, credulity or reason as helped to win the Great War. Any fight in Mexico is, at bottom, just dogfight, though the triumph of General Calles would mean the continuance of his Socialist Anti-Catholic policies. During the week General Calles' so-called "puppet," President Portes Gil, called at the U. S. Embassy?something which no Mexican President has done for many, many years?and expressed to Ambassador Dwight Whitney Morrow the Government's extreme gratitude for the rifles and ammunition which President Hoover is permitting to enter Mexico in hopes that the federal soldiers will thus...
...more authoritative statement was made in Sonora on behalf of Chief Rebel Gilberto Valenzuela, presidential candidate and El Capitan de los Cristeros: "When the federal government comes to its senses and sends Calles out of the republic and Fortes Gil (provisional president) agrees to permanent legal operations of government and the carrying out of elections, religious liberty and the pursuit of business without the interference of assassins, then all associated with the revolutionary movement will agree to a settlement...
Both revolutions were at first entirely bloodless. The soldiers of the garrisons at Vera Cruz and Nogales simply obeyed their Generals-previously trusted servants of the state-when ordered to declare against the government of Mexican President Emilio Fortes Gil, ruthless suppressor of Catholics...