Word: mexico
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Since this was printed, eight long years have passed. Trotsky has lived here and there in Europe, always kindling the flame of "Trotskyism" which is after all Communism. Today Trotsky is in Mexico- the ideal country for an assassination- and Stalin continues to disappoint the many Stalinists who continue to clamor for his extermination-but why should Stalin have Trotsky done away with...
Today the rulers of Mexico, styling themselves collectively "The Revolution," are at last taking seriously and actually carrying out the basic Mexican Constitutional law of 1917 which is simply a fulfillment of this same slogan...
President Cardenas, probably the most popular and conscientious chief executive Mexico has ever had, today makes zealous efforts to attune his Government's policy to the great mass of Mexicans, the peasants. Less than 25% of Mexican farm lands are owned by non-Mexicans and thus far President Cardenas has been careful not to antagonize prematurely the remaining "foreign landlords," or their governments...
Between Cardenas' "community" and the Communism of either Trotsky or Stalin there is every difference, but Mexico is nonetheless frankly a land of proletarian reform. As England's great, liberal Manchester Guardian observed in a gentlemanly salute to Trotsky last week, "Let us hope he will find a sure refuge in Mexico-a revolutionary country where a great revolutionary may be appreciated and understood." At latest reports, Host Diego Rivera had had to return to a hospital with a kidney ailment; Mrs. Trotsky had gone to bed with what seemed to be a recurrence of her malaria; Guest...
Married. Howard Dietz, 40, advertising & publicity director for Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, librettist (Three's a Crowd, Flying Colors); and Mrs. Tanis Guinness Montagu, 28, heiress to an Irish brewing fortune ("Guinness Is Good For You"), who two months ago jilted the Earl of Carnarvon; at Juarez, Mexico. Both were previously divorced...