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Prodded by square-jawed Fidel Velázquez, Secretary General of the Mexican Workers Confederation, the Chamber of Deputies last month demanded that President Manuel Avila Camacho dissolve the Sinarquista Union, whose blind discipline was all too reminiscent of the Nazis. Under one Salvador Abascal its membership had grown to at least 200,000 trained men before Abascal lost his job for talking too much. How long, the Chamber of Deputies asked, could Mexican democracy tolerate a wellarmed, anti-democratic party which...
Back in his native Spain, Souto found his best inspiration in the old Spanish masters Goya, El Greco, Velásquez. In 1934 the Spanish Republican Government gave him a Prix de Rome, which lasted him until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. A Loyalist who had a brother in Franco's ranks, Souto didn't enjoy the war much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last...
...canvases the work of a madman. Critics suggested that he was astigmatic, if not insane. When he died in 1614 his fame was already on the wane, and soon his greatest paintings were tucked away in dim sacristies and behind altars. The flashy, flattering portraits of brilliant Court-painter Velásquez became the rage, and El Greco was forgotten. Forgotten he remained for nearly 300 years...
...Fidel Velásquez, a comparatively conservative labor leader who is expected to succeed Lombardo as head of the principal labor organization...
...rdenas' chosen successor, scored a thumping victory at the expense of Almazanismo. By Government pressure, large-eared, hot-eyed, Communistic little Vicente Lombardo Toledano was squeezed out of the secretaryship of the Government-supporting CTM (Confederation of Mexican Labor), probably to be replaced by non-Communistic Fidel Velásquez. Organizer of the CTM in 1936, nimble-minded Lombardo returned from Russia beating the Stalinist drum, vigorously antiFascist. When Moscow shifted so did he, screaming denunciation of the U. S., President Roosevelt, Great Britain and the Monroe Doctrine without losing a beat. Four months ago, under pressure from President...