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...President's Territory. When Mexico broke off relations with Japan, Italy and Germany last month, President Manuel Avila Camacho appointed ex-President Lázaro Cárdenas commander in chief in the Pacific area. The General set up his headquarters at Ensenada, onetime resort of jaded Hollywood playboys in Baja California...
Mexico's Heel. To arid, lizard-like Baja (Lower) California, via Nogales, Ariz. and San Diego, Calif., went Mexican troops, moving across U.S. soil with Washington's permission. Avila Camacho, in a smart military-political stroke, named his predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas chief of Mexico's land, air and naval forces on the west coast, concentrated most of his country's tidy little Navy in the Pacific. From his Senate he sought authority to open ports and bases to ships and planes of the U.S. and any American nation at war with...
...everybody knew that before these issues could be settled there was one big question at stake that had to be solved. It was the problem of those Mexican oil properties which Manuel Avila Camacho's predecessor Lázaro Cárdenas expropriated from their U.S. owners...
...Confederation of Mexican Workers) is a sprawling, squalling, squabbling, red and red-hot Mexican edition of C. I. O. Under socialistic President Lázaro Cárdenas (1934-40) its million members rode wide and handsome, cutting a fancy swath of strikes with Government approval, also cutting in on the benefits of Cárdenas' expropriations. But meeting last week in Mexico City, the 4,589 delegates to the annual CTM convention were puzzled, disunited, sore. The cause was just one man, Cárdenas' heir, Manuel Avila Camacho, whom the CTM had helped to elect President...
Most harried of all has been CTM's Secretary General Vicente Lombardo Toledano, a clever, dreamy-eyed intellectual with big ears, who has followed three stars: Lázaro Cárdenas, Joseph Stalin and Lombardo Toledano, not necessarily in that order. The job of Mexico's official labor leader under Cárdenas was congenial enough to him, but not so congenial has been the position of apologist to the left for Avila Camacho's middle-of-the-road administration. By CTM's constitution he had to retire this year. For months it has been...