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...Vicente Lombardo Toledano, Mexican labor leader. Vice President Wallace remarked: "Hitler would be glad to hand 15 million dollars over to Lombardo Toledano, if he could be bought...
...Lombardo could be bought, he would lose the one source of his strength-the devotion and faith of the peons. For four years of Cárdenas' administration, he was the brilliant, aggressive and fluid leader of Mexican labor. With the help of Cárdenas he formed and headed the restless, left-wing confederation of workers known as the C.T.M. until shortly after Avila Camacho became President of Mexico. Then Lombardo stepped down with the comment: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie." If he is also frequently feared in Mexico...
...slight, gentle little man with big ears and dreamy eyes, he has the calm, sad face of a moonstruck mystic. The look is misleading. A Puritan in his personal life, abstemious, logical in argument, part Indian, part Italian, philosopher, archeologist, scientist, scholar, Lombardo is a man of power. No longer head of C.T.M. , he is still leader of the C.T.A.L., the loosely knit Confederation of Latin American Workers. That fact, last week, was the key to his mission...
Passionate opponent of fascism, Lombardo wanted to put before the workers of all Latin America the simple proposal that all should work together. He is the one man who can do it. Far from sabotaging the war effort of the United Nations, Lombardo wanted to get a pledge of unity and cooperation from labor in all of Mexico, Central and South America, so that there would be no work stoppages from Seattle to Tierra del Fuego...
...until the Nazi invasion), he has authored books on legal finance, spies, gastronomy, rats, spiders, eels. He collaborated on a play with Maurice Maeterlinck. Jazz, at first his passionate hobby, is now his profession. For him there is only one worth-while kind: hot, improvised jazz. "You must hear Lombardo," he says, "to have a notion of what not to do in jazz...