Word: rejecting
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...Plenipotentiary" to the Presidential inauguration in Mexico City Dec. 1 (see p. 14). When President-elect General Manuel Avila Camacho takes office on that day with the blessing of the U. S., retiring President Lazaro Cárdenas' revolutionary Six-Year Plan will be over, the promised revolt of President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán will be left as flat as a tortilla...
...grim and determined business, but when nations which believe in war and armed force as the supreme attributes of national life, brutally attempt to destroy or enslave nations which reject that belief, the latter have no alternative but resistance. If that resistance stirs up unedifying emotions, the same thing could be said of the feelings aroused in the innocent victims of any catastrophe--not only the emotions of fear and terror, but even those of exalted heroism, which, however admirable, inevitably disturb the desirable tranquility of normal life...
Flirtation, he knew, had its limits. President-reject General Juan Andreu Almazán was still insisting last week that he would take office Dec. 1, still declaring, "I will have the unanimous support of all the people...
...reject that thought. We say that we are the future. We say that the direction in which they would lead us is backward, not forward, backward to the bondage of the Pharaohs, backward to the slavery of the Middle Ages...
...Canadian press spoke out. Said the Toronto Telegram: "The whole program looks like a political sideshow designed to put up a front of doing something without arousing ill feeling on the part of those who are called up." Said the Globe & Mail: "All military experts reject [the scheme] as comparatively useless. . . . Soldiers who had barely learned to shoulder arms and form threes would be no more effective against the highly trained and mechanized forces of the enemy we are now fighting than an unorganized mob equipped with pitchforks...