Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Secretary of State Hull's stiff note in July, demanding payment by Mexico for $10,132,388 worth of farms and ranches expropriated from U. S. owners, or at least arbitration of the claims (TIME, Aug. 1), the Mexican people paid little attention. The Government of bold President Lazaro Cardenas, feeling sure that Mr. Hull did not mean business, said in its reply: 1) that the matter was not subject to international arbitration since Mexico's own laws require eventual payment; 2) that to arbitrate U. S. claims would be unfair to Mexican claimants, who have not been...
...unadulterated confiscation"; that Mexico's attitude was alien to the constitutions and undermined confidence in the fair dealing of all 21 Republics of the Western Hemisphere; that Mexico ought at least to stop expropriating the lands of U. S. owners, agree to a two-man (U. S. and Mexican) commission to fix values, and start putting aside some cash to pay for lands already taken or to be taken in future...
...Mexican who has been paid is Gabino Vazquez, chief of the Federal Agrarian Department For his expropriated farm and 50 cows in suburban Atzcapozalco, President Cardenas let him have 100,000 gold pesos...
...Apple? To bulwark himself politically, President Cárdenas recently reorganized his party from top to bottom, changed its name from National Revolutionary Party to Party of the Mexican Revolution, put in, as his Jim Farley, Luis Inocencio Rodriguez, his longtime personal favorite. If Cárdenas does not run again he might choose Luis Rodriguez as his successor. Another politico who might try to grab the job is Mexico's loudmouthed, posturing, Moscow-visiting Vicente Lombardo Toledano. He claims to lead 1,000,000 organized proletarians in his Confederation of Mexican Workers-by far the most potent force...
...unrelenting energy like that of Stalin he bored from within the Party and had captured it before his power was realized. "I never was really a soldier-just an armed citizen!" The President is fond of saying, and today he is neither Fascist nor Communist nor Socialist-just a Mexican who will naturally skin any gringos he can and who devotes his life to bettering, by fair means or foul, the lot of his own people, the Indians. Recently he boasted: "The great masses of the Mexican people are eating better than ever before. . . . The tendency in Mexico is toward...