Word: obregon
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Congress had met to deal with the grave crisis resulting from the recent assassination of President-Elect Alvaro Obregon (TIME, July 30). Until President Calles mounted the Tribune and began his 5,000-word address, Mexicans were half persuaded that he would attempt to succeed himself as President, though Mexico's Constitution forbids...
Calles has been called a Dictator, as was Obregon, as have been most Presidents of Mexico. Therefore the Nation was moved in the very depths of its emotional being, last week, when President Calles said: "For the first time in Mexican history the Republic faces a situation whose dominant note is the lack of a leader of military power. . . . This is the most solemn hour of our national life. ... I consider it necessary that we pass from a system of government by one man to a government of institutions. ... It is useless to seek an outstanding or dictatorial person...
...conclusion the President called upon all present-specifically upon the Divisional Generals and the Governors-to cooperate in the disinterested choice of a provisional president ad interim, and to facilitate the legal election of a candidate to replace assassinated President-Elect Obregon. Señor Calles retires from office...
Such, at least, was the theory advanced in a 5,000-word statement issued last week by General Antonio Rios Zertuchg, Mexican Chief of Police, official reply to insinuations implicating Mexico's President in General Obregon's murder...
Pope v. Calles. The Osservatore Romano, semi-official Vatican organ, replied with a repetition of its accusations linking the Mexican executive's name with General Obregon's murder. It scoffed at Calles' "thirst for justice," declared that his own guilt was obvious to anyone who had followed, step by step, events in Mexico. "The road which led him, together with Obregon, over the corpses of Carranza, Gomez and Serrano, led Calles fatally to pass also over Obregon's dead body ... did his best to hide the key that makes the truth obvious...