Word: huerta
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...most important news bearing on the war was the decision of the U. S. Government to supply President Obregon with war material to put down the Huerta rebellion. It was thought that the munitions will include from 10,000 to 15,000 Springfield rifles, as much as 10,000,000 rounds of ammunition and possibly some military aeroplanes. (See National Affairs...
...more than the usual amount of oratorical fulmination. The strongest spark firing the barrage which should rather successfully bury the really vital issue of tax reduction is the Mexican situation. The Administration has sold arms and ammunition to President Obregon who will use them to quell the de la Huerta insurrection...
That the American government should sell some of its surplus ordnance to that authority in Mexico who alone for some time has brought stability, progressive reforms, and international recognition to a neighboring country where every second child seems born a revolutionist seems beyond question. The de la Huerta faction, as far as it knows its own purpose and reveals it, seems to aim at a lawless control by the military and privileged classes. While indiscriminate aid to a foreign power is admittedly unwise, aid to the Obregon government is judiciously extended. Criticism on openly pacifistic grounds is perhaps excusable...
...revolution is triumphing everywhere," said General de la Huerta, rebel chief...
Within a comparatively few hours the insurrectionists were joined by the Navy and the States of Guerrero, Michoacan, Jalisca, Oxaca, San Luis Potosi, Chihuahua, Tamaulipas were later reported to have cast in their lot with de la Huerta...