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Thus did President General Manuel Avila Camacho address last week's opening session of the Mexican Congress. He was explaining to his people the reason why war reached across wide expanses of oceans and crossed high mountains of prejudice to disturb the siestas of even the humblest peon. He talked of a "new social, economic and international order." He warned that peace, when it comes, "will not endure without a general modification of the methods of labor, without the humanization of the system of commerce, and without an efficient recognition of the rights which each nation...
...common soldier, Padilla joined bush-whiskered Emiliano Zapata, a tenant farmer whose legions of peon generals spread terror among the owners of great haciendas. One of the few incorruptible revolutionists, Zapata believed genuinely in the social revolution. All Mexicans remember his motto: "Man of the South, it is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees...
...peon army was temporarily demobilized at week's end, it looked as though the decks were being cleared for action, and Mexicans awaited Sept. 1, when the public proclamation of two Presidents should bring a showdown...
...Mexico," snapped Ambassador Francisco Castillo Nájera in Washington when Chairman Martin Dies of the Dies Committee said he had "incontrovertible information" that German experts had laid out and equipped 26 camouflaged airplane landing fields along the border. Mexicans from President Cárdenas to the poorest peon knew that a fifth column was on the march south of the Rio Grande. They also knew that its immediate object was not to prepare Mexico for the advent of Adolf Hitler but to keep Uncle Sam out of Europe by keeping him busy in his own backyard...
...Peon elects to defend the suit, which will be tried before a local jury not over-sympathetic to Harvard pranks, Mickey may win his libel suit, although he has no chance of proving that he has been damaged to the extent of $10,000, or even $100. Even if the court awards Sullivan damage to the extent of one cent, the "Poem will be stuck for costs, which may be a considerable amount...