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West Point training was followed by fire-baptism in the Mexican War, where heroic service at Cerro Gordo, Contreras-Churubusco and Chapultepec led General Scott to designate young Lee "the greatest living soldier in America." Engineer work in Washington and Baltimore taught him to construct defenses, a knowledge which was to serve him well. For three years he superintended West Point...
While passing through the Chapultepec Gardens, Mexico City, on his way to a bull fight, General Alvaro Obregon, onetime President of Mexico, one-armed Presidential candidate, good friend of President Calles*was halted by a smallish auto (Essex) swinging in front of his powerful limousine...
...sumptuous Castillo de Chapultepec (Castle of Grasshopper Hill), an edifice of imperial magnificence, begun by the Spanish Viceroy Don Matias de Galvez (1783), the coffin of Señora Calles was lifted from the hearse and borne into one of the huge, resplendent grand salons. An airplane droned overhead, scattering roses; and through a blue haze the sacred mountains Iztaccihuatl (White Woman) and Popocatepetl (Smoke Mountain) seemed brooding. Simple peons, kneeling in the lovely, verdant Bosque de Chapultepec, muttered prayers half pagan, half Roman Catholic to Iztaccihuatl who they fancy resembles the white, reclining form of a pagan goddess...
President Obregon, the Federal Government's one-armed leader, captured the rebel general, Pedro Anaya, singlehanded. Obregon left the national palace in Mexico City in an automobile. As he passed through the streets on his way to the Presidential Palace at Chapultepec, Obregon saw Anaya and invited him to enter. Anaya hesitated, recognized the President, and started to run. Obregon pulled a gun and again invited Anaya to take a ride. This time the invitation was obeyed...