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...travesty of democracy itself. No Government has ever suffered an electoral defeat. Dictatorial Presidents have either prolonged their own terms by changing the constitution or elected their own straw men with straw votes-or been assassinated, overthrown, exiled or otherwise forcibly liquidated. In the last election the approved candidate, Lazaro Cárdenas, received 1,090,000 votes, while his two opponents received 18,000 and 10,000 respectively...
Election day, Sunday, dawned bright, and church bells called the faithful to Mass. They prayed that Lazaro Cárdenas' promise of a fair election might be fulfilled151;but their prayers were not even finished before the promise was shattered. The PRM flying squadrons took over polls, even flagrantly established some in their own headquarters. At ancient Convento Vizacaines, Camachistas seized the polls, Almazanistas drove them off, Government soldiers drove them off and restored the booth to the favorite son. Camachistas foisted Camacho ballots on illiterate Almazán followers and made them mark them...
President Lazaro Cardenas and his Government last week played ostrich, denied there was any Nazi or Communist influence at work in Mexico...
This spring the President, who had also justified expropriation on the ground that foreign owners did not give Mexican labor a straight shake, had to announce an "Economy Program" which meant firing one oil worker out of six. One reason for all these headaches to Lazaro Cardenas has been the efforts of expropriated U. S. and British oilmen to maintain a "united front" and refuse to market for the Mexican Government oil they considered stolen from them. Last week Oilman Harry F. Sinclair blithely deserted the united front to make an inside deal with the Cardenas Government...
During the regime of Plutarco Elias Calles (1924-28) the bad men could find jobs as bodyguards for the President. Under mild-mannered Lazaro Cardenas there has been little place for them. But President Cardenas is to retire next November, and now campaigning for July's Presidential election are two military men with strong backing, plenty of money and no particular revulsion to a little shooting now & then-Generals Manuel Avila Camacho and Juan Andreu Almazan...