Word: veracruz
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...April day in 1914, while Daniels was Secretary, the Navy shelled the Mexican port of Veracruz, ousting the revolutionary Government of General Victoriano Huerta. By 1916 the U.S. was at war with Mexico. Daniels later denied that he had ordered the attack. But Mexicans did not forget that he was technically in command of the Fleet...
Mexico and Great Britain, both good friends of the U.S., have not spoken to each other since Britain broke off diplomatic relations in protest against Mexico's expropriation of oil properties in 1938. Last week Sir Richard Clifford Tute, onetime Chief Justice of the Bahamas, arrived in Veracruz from London on a quiet diplomatic mission...
...facing the stormy Caribbean and stormier Europe, rather than the west coast, which is said to have been thoroughly explored by swarms of Japanese "fishermen." A "Red" Army was detailed to defend the 6,000-foot great central plateau surrounding Mexico City from a "Blue" Army supposedly advancing from Veracruz. The Red Army, which was supposed to win and was therefore given a slight edge in numbers and equipment, also outwitted the Blues. First Red move was to slam partly motorized infantry and cavalry into the only two eastward passes -over the massif formed by the famous volcano Popocatepetl...
...hundred thousand unionists of the CTM cheered and marched in Mexico City, but there was more excitement in Veracruz, where three paraders tore down and burned the flag in front of the German Consulate...
...shipments of Mexican mercury to Japan. A Japanese bid for 18,000 tons of scrap iron was rejected, a cargo of war materials ticketed for Tokyo frozen. A Government spokesman announced that Cardenas would declare unconstitutional a contract signed fortnight ago, granting Japan oil concessions in the State of Veracruz. This, said the Mexican Good Neighbor, was to "demonstrate Mexico's adherence to the hemisphere policy of solidarity." Few days later President General Cárdenas changed his mind...