Word: obregons
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Having but a year ago transferred from the administration of Obregon to that of Calles by peaceful and constitutional means, the Mexican Government is now striving to complete its sovereignty. It governs an agricultural nation of industrial resources, inhabited by an uneducated and half-breed population. To its credit it has international recognition and several years of warless existence. Its task is to solve severe problems dealing with stability, national unity, racial peace, popular education and, not loast, agrarian comfort and natural resources...
...therefore unfortunate that Foreign Minister Saenz employs a legal fallacy in refuting the American allegation that Mexico has violated, by her land laws, a treaty of the Obregon administration, known as the Claims Commission agreement. Mr. Saenz replies that the Mexican courts will protect the treaty against any legislative infringement that may have occurred, as soon as a pertinent case arises for adjudication: It is the prevailing interpretation, however, that, as far as a nation's courts are concerned, a law subsequent to and infringing a treaty is valid, just as an ordinary repeal is valid. And all that...
...days previously, Richard H. Cole of St. Louis, the man who obtained U. S. recognition for Presidents Madero and Carranza, and who is now U. S. agent for the President-aspirant, Adolfo de la Huerta who was last year beaten by President Obregon (TIME, July 14, 1924) in the most recent of Mexico's civil wars-this man Cole called upon President Coolidge at Swampscott, failed to find him at home...
After the revolt, Adolfo de la Huerta became Provisional President ' until Señor Obregon was elected to that dignity. Then peace reigned for three years; and the Sonora triplets were indispensable to one another?Calles as Ministro de la GobernaciÓn (Minister of the Interior), de la Huerta as Minister of Finance. In the fourth year of this regime, the 1924 election loomed. Mexicans speculated as to whether Calles or de la Huerta would succeed President Obregon. The latter favored his right-hand man and favorite, General Calles. For a time, de la Huerta also favored him, because, as allegedly...
...Señor Calles is, it is conceded that Señor Obregon is bigger. Is Plutarco Elias Calles to be, therefore, a puppet-President? The odds seem to favor...