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...turbulent history since the 1917 revolution the pendulum has swung alternately left and right. Between 1924 and 1927 President Plutarco Elías Calles made Mexico nationalistic, anticlerical, anti-U. S. Then Calles grew conservative and the pendulum swung to the right until another strong-man President, Lázaro Cárdenas, gave it a violent heave to the left. Avila Camacho had not only started it rightward again but with considerable momentum...
...Camacho President at last -after many months of anxious battle. The story of how he came to the Presidency is one of the weirdest in all the fantastic history of Mexican politics. Avila Camacho, a conservative soldier, was imposed on the Mexican people by the Government of Lázaro Cárdenas, a liberal idealist who picked Avila Camacho because he was his old War Minister and seemed to be the strongest man for the job. He was chosen last July 7 in an election which mocked democracy-in which both sides kept their opponents away from the ballots...
...Avila Camacho also realized last week that he would not be President were it not for the fact that Lázaro Cárdenas had backed him, that the extreme left wing had put their machines behind him and their machine guns in front of him. So in last-minute dickering Avila Camacho agreed to form an interim Cabinet, with several holdovers from the Cárdenas regime. It looked as if for the time there would be a government of compromise...
President General Lázaro Cárdenas made some nice gestures toward continental defense last week. He slapped an embargo on 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...
...some of the Rightists, Avila Camacho last week thought the time ripe to enunciate his principles. He announced that he was a good Catholic (the Church has been disestablished since 1859), that Communists would not be permitted to collaborate with his Government (Communists were welcomed by Lázaro Cárdenas), that he would get along without the help of Radical Labor Leader Vicente Lombardo Toledano (on whose support Cardenas relied). "I am a democrat," announced Avila Camacho. "It is my firm belief that the State should lend a hand to the poor and help improve the conditions...