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President and Senora Juan Campisteguy of Uruguay were at the pier. Señora Campisteguy to take Mrs. Hoover to the Parque Hotel where an entire upper floor was reserved, President Campisteguy to have a half-hour with Mr. Hoover at the National Palace. The populace was out in scores of thousands but here, more than in most of the South American cities visited, were heard cries of "Viva Sandino" and "Down with imperialistic America...
...Señor Elio found innumerable polite reasons why Bolivia should not avail herself of offers of mediation made by 1) the Pan-American conference on arbitration and conciliation at Washington; 2) the council of the League of Nations sitting at Lugano, Switzerland; 3) the permanent Pan-American conciliation commission at Montevideo; 4) King Alfonso XIII of Spain; 5) Pope Pius XI; 6) President Irigoyen of Argentine; 7) President Machado of Cuba...
Around Mexico's great Federation of Labor, the C. R. O. M., there was generated, last week, a menacing crisis. Without prior hint of trouble the Congress of the Crom met and passed two fateful resolutions. The first gave notice to Mexico's new President, Señor Emilio Fortes Gil, that provincial officials are "persecuting" members of the Crom, and asked that these persecutions be stopped. The second resolution requested President Fortes Gil to padlock the Teatro Lirico in Mexico City, where a gross buffoon has been impersonating and holding up to ridicule, night after night...
...inaugural address (TIME, Dec. 10) he had pledged himself to uphold the right of free speech and therefore could not muzzle the buffoon. Instead, the President sent 50 riflemen to protect the Teatro Lirico from possible Crom mobs. To the Crom's charge of "persecution," square-jawed Señor Fortes Gil returned a flat denial. Thereupon the Crom Congress ordered all Crom members* throughout Mexico to resign from any State or Federal post which they may hold...
...blood of the laboring classes, vulturing and gorging on the dupes who have elected him President of the Crom!" Deputy Aurelio Manrique began by calling President Calles a Judas and worked down through comparisons which finally became obscene. Senator Lauro C. Caloca hurled thoroughgoing curses and charged that Señor Calles when President had connived with Luis Morones in stupendous graft. Meanwhile in the Chamber of Deputies Melchor Ortega and Aurelio Manrique had pulled guns on each other, but were overpowered by friends and disarmed before they could commit murder...