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Where Cárdenas meant upheaval Avila Camacho meant the sun and the wind, which would heal wounds and quiet a torn land. Mexico was sick of being pulled leftward by Communists, rightward by Fascists. To deeply religious Mexicans, Avila Camacho stood for the middle way, the return to quiet, earthy values. They listened when he said "Soy creyente" ("I am a believer"), a profession of faith which no Mexican President had publicly voiced since Benito Juarez nationalized the church's properties during the 1856-59 reform laws. They listened when he said "Los que no se obtiente...
...Plutarco Elías Calles made Mexico nationalistic, anticlerical, anti-U. S. Then Calles grew conservative and the pendulum swung to the right until another strong-man President, Lázaro Cárdenas, gave it a violent heave to the left. Avila Camacho had not only started it rightward again but with considerable momentum...
...first stop was Paris. There the ceremonies were a little shabby, for Herr Hitler's levee was with the butcher's son, Pierre Laval. But the dealings were vast. Herr Hitler knew all about his guest; knew him for a shrewd lawyer-politician who had swung rightward with the years and was out to make a deal for France...
...likes to have his ox gored, least of all A. F. of L. Counsel Joseph Padway. Last February in Madison, Wis., Mr. Padway bellowed as though he himself were on the horns. The Legislature of his home State, in step with the rightward trend of U. S. politics, was considering bills to amend Wisconsin's famed, liberal State Labor Code of 1931 and its Little Wagner Act of 1937, which Joe Padway helped to draft. Having yet to emasculate Mr. Padway's State Labor Relations Act, Wisconsin's newly conservative Legislature last week made over the Labor...
Democrats of the East, conservative at heart, began to wonder whether the Rhode Island defeat could be used to swing Franklin Roosevelt on a rightward course. Said Senator Gerry of Rhode Island: "I believe this evidences a distinct trend against some of the Roosevelt policies, especially the processing tax. ... It was not a protest against the local organization." Said Senator Walsh of Massachusetts: "The only explanation that occurs to me is that certain economic policies . . . had created a sentiment against the Administration, but I did not think it had reached such proportions. I feel sure the Administration will be able...