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...Havana, where one Italian freighter was seized, the home of Minister of State Dr. José Manuel Cortina was bombed-in reprisal, Dr. Cortina charged...
...Avila Camacho stopped for breakfast at Wimpy's, a hot-dog tavern on the Avenida Oaxaca, near the U.S. Embassy. He was on his way to Texcoco, 25 miles away, where he was building a factory. Gabriel is the youngest of four Avila Camacho brothers. His older brother, Manuel, is President of Mexico...
Later that morning Captain Avila Camacho stopped at a police station to report the shooting. Sympathetic police officers heard his story, released him on his own recognizance. But for Brother Manuel Avila Camacho, striving to give Mexico a just administration, the problem was not so simple...
...third anniversary of Mexico's expropriation of foreign-owned oil properties, celebrated in Mexico as a national holiday. Usually an excuse for demonstrations against Yankee imperialism, the day passed without serious incident this year. Workers paraded in the great square outside the National Palace, while inscrutable President Manuel Avila Camacho stood on the balcony with a guard of honor, waving his hand, smiling with the slightly grim air of a man who wanted no more nonsense...
...marked us as His chosen people, henceforth to lead in the regeneration of the world"). She finds equally quixotic the present-day Filipino hope for coexistent 1) independence, 2) protection by the Asiatic Fleet, 3) free trade with the U. S., 4) exit from the international scene. For President Manuel Quezon-a sort of hothouse hybrid between Jimmy Walker and Huey Long-she has little respect. And toward American colonists she is passionately irreverent. "They build for themselves a barricaded American life wherever they are. They insulate themselves as thoroughly as possible against the life of the country they...