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Plutarco Elías Calles roared into Mexican politics in 1920 as one of the "Sonora triumvirate" of Obregón, de la Huerta & Calles which overthrew and assassinated President Carranza. Calles, a superb executive during his four years (1924-28) as President, built up a potent political machine. After Obregón's assassination in 1928 he could afford to put in a Presidential puppet, Emilio Fortes Gil, and invent the National Revolutionary Party, a tight Fascist organization with a highly Socialistic program of paper promises for the people. Calles and his henchmen unionized Mexican labor, attacked...
Colonel Mendieta was the fifth President of his troubled country since 1933, when Cuba overthrew her "tyrant" General Gerardo Machado, who now lives in Europe. There was no critical reason why he should resign, but the Cuban political snarl had at last grown too involved and ominous for Colonel Mendieta. With the beauty of phrase which comes readily to Cuban orators, he abruptly declared: "The Cuban people said when they called me to the Presidency that it would be as the nation's savior. Now I shall again be the nation's savior, if I resign. Hence...
...Doremus became a secret agent of those opposing Windrip. He smuggled propaganda from exiles in Canada, was arrested, tortured, sent to a concentration camp, almost died. Doremus got out, lived in exile in Canada until Windrip was overthrown. Windrip's publicity man became dictator. Then a puritanical general overthrew the publicity man and declared war on Mexico. Revolution broke out, followed by civil war. Doremus sneaked into the enemy lines, unafraid, for, in the last words of the novel, "a Doremus Jessup can never...
...country, was discovered by Sophie and subsequently strangled in his bed. An investigation, establishing Sophie's guilt, was suppressed by the king. Sophie had her wealth, her entrée into society, but she was hissed in the theatre, snubbed on all sides, while her scandal nearly overthrew the government. She developed into a monstrous, muscular, scowling and ugly woman, adopted a daughter, lived ten years after the Prince's death, became extremely pious, doing great good works for the poor...
Cuban students, whose revolution had just failed, were calling the Government "more brutal and imperialistic" than the tyranny of Gerardo Machado which they overthrew two years ago. But what most enraged them was the fact that the Cuban people are swinging away from them and back to the old-line parties of the early Machado days. And, in snug Paris exile, Machado was saying, "Just as I expected." Meanwhile the Chase National Bank last week submitted to President Mendieta a long argument showing why his Government should resume interest payments on a $60,000,000 Chase-sponsored loan...