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According to the Mexican detectives next day, the condition of the body showed that Sheldon Harte was beaten and otherwise tortured by his kidnappers before they killed him. Mexico City Police Chief Jose Manuel Nunez said his operatives have evidence that the principal assailants were paid 250 pesos each from the funds of the Mexican Communist Party for the shooting & kidnapping. The plot was organized, according to Mexico City police, by four members of the Mexican Communist Party, veterans who fought in Spain against Franco...
Last week the novelty was being tried at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. The painter was famed Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. But in this case the mutual enjoyment was not a neat 50-50. The painter apparently did not like all those people looking over his shoulder...
...President Vargas' utterances as head of its most important rival for South American leadership, faced by a 30% decrease of European markets since the outbreak of the war (although trade with Britain is way up), Argentina too turned to the U. S. for help. French-educated Foreign Minister Jose M. Cantilo, always before an advocate of an Argentine-controlled South American bloc, declared that mutual understanding between Argentina and the U. S. was improving daily. More urgent was the cry that the U. S. must aid the South American "economic victims of the European War" or see them fall...
...Knights of Malta in their scarlet tunics, Army and Navy officials in dress uniform, city fathers in robes of office, and the gold-braided Diplomatic Corps carefully arranged to keep belligerent envoys apart. President General Antonio Oscar de Fragoso Carmona shared prominence in the Cathedral with General Francisco Jose Pinto, special envoy from onetime colony Brazil; Nicolas Franco, Spanish Ambassador and brother of El Caudillo, and British Ambassador Sir Walford Harmood Montague Selby. To cheering mobs outside His Eminence Emmanuel Cardinal Gonc,alves Cerejeira read a Papal Bull dated 1179 recognizing the full independence of Portugal...
...Worldly-wise German officials in Argentina cabled to Berlin to suggest that troops in Nazi-occupied Boulogne lay a wreath on the house at 105 Grand Rue, where South American Liberator General Jose de San Martin (who led 4,000 men across the Andes in 1817, freed Chile, Peru and Argentina from Spanish rule) died penniless...