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...during my recent visit to three capital cities in South America the vast throngs which came to express by their cheers their friendship for the United States. I remember especially that above all the cheers I heard one constant cry again and again, one shout above all others: 'Viva la Democracia...
...salute the people of all the nations in all the western world, I echo that greeting from our good neighbors of the Americas: 'Viva la Democracia!'-'Long Live Democracy...
...freedom of the seas, while Wendell Willkie bellowed huskily about plant amortization as a bottleneck in the defense program. Not many of the 45,000,000 U. S. voters can define the word amortization, but even in far-off South America listeners could appreciate the President's vibrant "Viva la Democracia...
Last week, in real Mexico, Independence Day passed and nothing very much happened. President Lazaro Cardenas went to the village of Dolores Hidalgo in Guanajuato State, stood before a microphone and roared the historic Grito de Dolores (Shout of Independence)-Viva Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe, viva la Independencia-which is Mexico's equivalent of the Confederacy's Rebel Yell. Then he made a speech. "Some people are trying to cause a rebellion in Mexico and entice the Mexican people away from the ways of peace," said the President. "An examination of the international situation will cause...
Installation Day arrived and Mexico City prepared for trouble. Picked squads of sharpshooters kept vigilance atop the brownstone building of the Chamber of Deputies. Others watched from adjoining housetops and armed peons guarded streets or careened through the city in trucks, shouting "Viva Avila Camacho!" Pistoleros prowled the Chamber and Senate corridors, and many Camachista Deputieselect appeared unshaven and disheveled for the meeting, having slept in the Chamber Building to avoid being sniped or kidnapped...