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Since the election, the matter of the war debts has reached a point more crucial than when the moratorium was declared a year and a half ago. It is doubtful whether the internal economy of the various nations is anything improved since then, and international conditions certainly are not, Prompt and reasonable action toward the statement of war debts is essential to curing the world's distress...
...other depression has the Government taken a hand. But this time, after the first shock, in the autumn of 1929, the President called a conference of business leaders. His concern was for the working people. . . . The President's foresight and prompt action upheld the wage scale for a year and a half in the face of constantly diminishing profits. Then the Government created emergency jobs for workers who otherwise would have had none...
...head & front of his church in Mexico. The Pope's encyclical Acerba animi ("bitterness of soul'') of last fortnight, complaining about the Mexican Government's treatment of the church, had stirred angry talk among the irreligious populace, had brought forth a prompt and bellicose retort from Mexico's new young Provisional President...
...employs it as a handy bogey. Most Mexican ladies (voteless) are pious and good. So are Mexico's straw-hatted peasants, although even Pius XI may not be sure what antique pagan notions linger in their Catholicism. But the men who run things are noisily, bombastically antireligious. Prompt and bellicose was the retort last week of Mexico's new young Provisional President Abelardo L. Rodriguez: "In an unforeseen and absurd manner there has been published the encyclical . . . whose tone does not surprise us because methods filled with falsehood against this country are characteristic of the Papacy. . . . "In answer...
Before dawn General Moreno. Col. Bravo and the rest of the Army officers had called upon their good friend Don Carlos Davila to assume the Presidency of a "purely civilian junta" which he prompt...