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...despite the high tension. President Manuel Avila Camacho was really moving very cautiously. To be sure, war would give his rightist Government a chance to "unify" Mexico, extend controls over labor, prices, economic resources, keep the business boom from going hog-wild. He was being urged hard toward war by Foreign Minister Padilla, who saw it as the culmination of his hemispheric policy, and by the great Communist-led labor groups who wanted a crusade against Fascism in alliance with Russia...
Crossed Wires. But President Avila Camacho had to consider Mexico's businessmen, who feared high taxes and the end of their boom. More significantly, Mexican observers wired last week that "there has been no excitement yet . . . among the people. . . it is generally agreed that Mexicans want the Axis defeated, but wish to keep Mexico nonbelligerent . . . 85% of the rank-&-file have no stomach for fighting for Britain and the U.S." The President had to think more than twice about Mexico's rank-&-file, for it was no secret that many of them still fondly recalled the liberal regime...
Meanwhile in Mexico City, student demonstrators were smashing windows in the German Club, and leftist radicals "stormed" the Deutsches Haus. The Stalinists hastened to make political hay: Vicente Lombardo Toledano, President of the shadowy "Confederation of Workers of Latin America," wrote President Manuel Avila Camacho demanding that Mexico instantly declare formal war on the Axis and seize all Axis citizens' property; the leaders of the Stalinist-controlled C.T.M., biggest Mexican labor federation, demanded...
...faith of the peons. For four years of Cárdenas' administration, he was the brilliant, aggressive and fluid leader of Mexican labor. With the help of Cárdenas he formed and headed the restless, left-wing confederation of workers known as the C.T.M. until shortly after Avila Camacho became President of Mexico. Then Lombardo stepped down with the comment: "I leave office a rich man-rich in the hatred of the bourgeoisie." If he is also frequently feared in Mexico it is because of his influence among the workers. He has been called a Communist. He admits...
...hill where Aztec priests once studied the stars, President Manuel Avila Camacho of Mexico dedicated a great modern observatory. Tonanzintla, near Puebla, 70 miles southeast of Mexico City, was the envy of visiting U.S. astronomers because of its latitude. Harvard's Harlow Shapley explained, "All the Milky Way can be seen-not merely the 60% or less which is satisfactorily explored from most northern observatories...