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Mexico City last week took the hardest blow of the war. A Government decree to save tires and buses struck at the cherished two-to-three-hour siesta...
Mexicans are accustomed to go home for a big lunch, take a nap, return to work. The decree, when it takes effect, will allow them one hour only; most will have to lunch downtown. The siesta is not a proof of laziness; office hours average about as long as in the U.S. But it requires four commuting trips a day instead of the U.S. two. In small cities the custom is efficient, pleasant. In crowded Mexico City, with 1,750,000 people and few downtown restaurants, the siesta puts a tremendous strain on transportation...
...time to sleep the siesta and to dream daydreams has come to an end. Liberalism, Catholic indifference, the fury of the Communist hordes are threatening the Church and principles of Hispanidad in the Argentine. . . . Jews, leaning on the support of foreign powers which are anti-Catholic, anti-Spanish, are menacing the century-old Hispanidad culture in South America. . . . Spaniards in the Argentine must unite in a bloc and collaborate with the good forces of the country. . . . The imperial banner of Hispanidad must fly again...
...jera, Mexico's Ambassador to the U.S. and a good chess player, was playing the biggest diplomatic game of his career. On the international chessboard in Washington were some powerful pieces-oil, silver, the Good Neighbor policy. One afternoon last week, at an hour usually sacred to siesta, Chess Player Castillo Nájera played all his pieces and played them well...
After their heavy meals, Mexicans take a nap, but Avila Camacho had no siesta last week. Day & night the streets around his Mexico City house were jammed with cars for two blocks. Each morning there were close to 150 names on his waiting list-people waiting for positions, men with axes to grind and hates to vent. Through it all, Avila Camacho remained calm, and kept the pleased expression of a man with a fish on his line...