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Mexican Catholic clergy tend to view the weak Protestant competition as a U.S. plot for domination of Mexico, financed by lavish quantities of gringo gold. Said one priest last week: Protestant missionaries, who have been dispensing medicine, clothing, etc., are like the British missionaries in Ireland during the famine of 1847 who bought Catholic souls, with soup. They are all metiches - people who stick their noses into other people's business. "In the U.S. you have 80 million people who profess no religion at all. If the Protestants want to save souls, why don't they...
Mexico is such a lively vacation center that tourism, at $50,000,000 a year, is the country's fourth largest industry. During the war, Mexico got a share of the fancy carriage trade which once dawdled along the Riviera. Now the prewar, wholesome, camera-slung gringo is driving down the splendid 750-mile highway from Laredo, Tex. to Mexico City, to find that spiraling inflation has changed the land of cheap living he remembered. Nightclubs charge a $6 minimum, simple lunches cost...
...wanted machinery to manufacture cement ("Get us that machinery and we will erect a statue of you in concrete"). Said a Panamanian who heard one of the Vice President's speeches: "He speaks our language very well, and the unusual thing about him is that, unlike the average gringo who chooses the simplest words, Wallace uses ten-dollar words...
Mexico's old suspicion of gringo imperialism was fast disappearing last week in a series of spontaneous moves which were aimed at internal unity and external protection...
Mexico, while plumping 1,000% for the State Department deal, also had reason to lean a bit toward the Parish compromise. Since Mexico kicked the gringos back up north, its oil properties have been limping and stalling. Last year's production was 40,300,000 bbl.-compared to 46,500,000 bbl. in the last pre-expropriation year. Exploration has almost stopped. Some of the movable equipment has been shipped to Japan for scrap, in exchange for the kind of ready cash that used to pour in from oil-company taxes. President Avila Camacho might well find...