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...grunts of the Pope," it was major news last week that Roman Catholics believe the situation to have altered radically. Clearly they pin this belief on the fact that Mexico is on the eve of a presidential election with only one candidate in the field-onetime President Alvaro Obregon. Presumably his inauguration is assured for next December, and last week Prelate Ruiz hinted broadly that he had received assurances from President-Apparent Obregon that better times are coming to Mexican Roman Catholics...
Quarrel. As everyone knows the quarrel of the Holy See with President Calles has resulted from his enforcement of anti-religious clauses in the Mexican Constitution which were not enforced during the last presidency (1920-24) of General Obregon or previously. The core of the quarrel is President Calles' enforcement decree of July 19, 1926, authorizing the police to prevent priests from officiating until they register with the Mexican authorities. Straightway this decree was stigmatized by the Mexican Episcopate as an implied setting of the State above the Pope, and all Roman Catholic priests have refused to be registered...
Calles' Attitude. If General Obregon has made overtures to the Holy See he has done so only after consultation with his good & close friend President Calles. Last week President Calles made it abundantly clear that his own position has altered by not one jot or tittle. Spoke to correspondents the President's halfbrother, Senor Arturo M. Elias, Mexican Consul-General in New York, suave, worldly and at times sarcastic...
...Established with 31 players in 1920 at the decree of President Obregon...
Thousands of Mexicans were at the Valbuena Flying Field at dawn this morning eager to greet Col. Lindbergh. . . . At 8:40 President Calles arrived accompanied by his entire cabinet . . . Ambassador Morrow, seated between President Calles and General Obregon. . . . With reports at 10:30 that Col. Lindbergh was half way between Tampico and Mexico City, the huge crowd (more than 25,000) began to mill around eager to get good positions. Nine Mexican Army airplanes hopped off to meet him. One of the planes doing stunt flying went into a nose dive and crashed several hundred yards in front...