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...Madero's Downfall...
...story on Mexico in your issue of July 15, you state that the late U. S. Ambassador to Mexico, Henry Lane Wilson, "helped plan the downfall and murder of Francisco Madero in 1913." This is one more repetition of a flagrant falsehood which has persisted for 27 years. I ask TIME's aid in squelching it for good...
...anti-American is now the greatest of political assets in Mexico, and the false tradition of the martyrdom of Madero hence has great expediency. Actually, many well-informed Mexicans think that the assassination of Madero was not political. Madero had many personal enemies. For instance, only a few days before his death Madero had, in one of his maniacal frenzies, personally shot two members of his own staff, when they tried to persuade him to resign after the report was confirmed that General Blanquete, whose troops had been called into the city to aid Madero, was training his guns...
Finally, declared the President-elect, he would extend adequate guarantees to both Mexican and foreign investors. This just about completed the platform on which General Almazán campaigned. Within 24 hours General Emilio Madero (brother of onetime President Francisco Madero, who ousted Dictator Porfirio Díaz), president of the Almazanista PRUN, announced that if Avila Camacho carried out his promises, he himself would give support to the new President...
North of the Border. All week long a stream of Almazán followers moved north through Mexico, crossed into the U. S. at Laredo and Brownsville, poured into San Antonio, whose 90,000 Mexicans stood almost solidly for Almazán. Thirty years ago onetime President Francisco Madero used this same town as a jumping-off place for the revolution which carried him to power...