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...anxious throngs who crowded into Mexico City's Palacio Nacional this week, bland President Manuel Avila Camacho displayed a two-inch swath burned in the jacket of his grey-and-red striped suit, a similar powder burn in his white shirt beneath. The burns were over his heart...
...jitsu trick and somewhat erratic marksmanship were all that had saved the President. When Avila Camacho stepped from his Cadillac limousine at the ground-floor entrance of the Palacio Nacional, he was accosted by 1st Lieut. José Antonio de Lama y Rojas, son of a wealthy merchant from the President's home state of Puebla. As the President turned to enter the private elevator, the 32-year-old lieutenant pulled a .45 revolver, blazed away. Before a second shot could be fired, the President grasped the assassin's wrist, twisted it until the gun clattered...
President Manuel Avila Camacho took the labor bull by the horns last week, struck at the last vestiges of union control of Mexico's railroads. Management now has power to hire & fire, to disregard all union regulations which "slow up, impede or impair" operation-more power, in fact, than U.S. railway management possesses...
President Manuel Avila Camacho, in front of a group of his country's flyers, thought the time had come to speak in martial tones. Said he: "To the air forces falls the responsibility for carrying our national colors to the war fronts.. . . You have already shown you want to fight.* . . . I shall consider and determine the possibility that Mexico, in a valiant and virile manner, shall participate in the war-although actually it will only be a symbolic act to raise our flag on the battlefields...
Before the war Texans paid little attention to the bitterness and hatred which their attitude spread below the border. But when wartime labor shortage threatened their crops last year (and Mexican President Manuel Avila Camacho let it be known that they would get no help from Mexico), they took belated notice. In a broad-brimmed sombrero Governor Coke Stevenson made a tour of Mexico, spreading buttery words, sparring with Mexican newsmen. On his return he organized the Texas Good Neighbor Commission to soften Texas prejudice...