Word: chapultepec
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...first man Aléman sees each morning at his great white-walled house near Chapultepec Park is Carlos Serrano. President of the Senate now and second most powerful man in Mexico, Serrano hurries up the walk from his house next door to report on the state of the nation. Often there is trouble. Now, as always since...
...most outstanding work has been the staging of hemispheric conferences. That is right down Lleras' alley. Aside from handling many top Government jobs in Colombia, Lleras has been attending Pan American conferences since the Montevideo meeting in 1934. At Mexico City, he helped write the anti-Axis Chapultepec Agreement, which provided for common defense of the hemisphere against aggressors within and without. As a believer in unity at almost any price, Lleras sparked the fight at San Francisco to get Argentina into...
Files of blue-clad Mexican Army cadets waited in the grove of ancient and enormous trees beneath Mexico City's historic Chapultepec Castle. As Harry Truman's black, bulletproof Lincoln stopped in the deep shade, the cadets stood rigidly at attention. The President of the U.S. stepped out, walked to a stone shaft which stood amid the trees. An aide handed him a wreath. He laid it down, stood for a few moments, bowed, walked back to his car. A few cadets wept silently. The presidential procession rolled...
...monument on which he had laid his flowers bore the names of Los Niños Héroes-six teen-age cadets who died when U.S. troops took Chapultepec in 1847. According to defiant legend, five had stabbed themselves rather than surrender to the invaders from the North. A sixth had leaped to death from a parapet, wrapped in the castle's battle flag...
...Chronicles of the Battle of Chapultepec simply state that five cadets were killed by gunfire, and a sixth was bayoneted as U.S. troops swept into the castle...