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...same time the most pro-British, and so the Ortiz-Castillo feud will have little effect on foreign policy unless it blows up into revolution. But in nearby Uruguay the anti-Government Herrerista-Blanco Party makes hay by opposing U. S. influence. In Paraguay a showdown is brewing between Dictator-President General Higino Morinigo and his would-be successor, onetime Provisional President Colonel Rafael Franco, who is now supporting himself by making soap in Buenos Aires...
Signed for a two-year contract with the Bell Syndicate, Pundit Thompson transfers her column to the arch-New Deal New York Post, after five years with the arch-Republican New York Herald Tribune.* Said Columnist Thompson, of her showdown with the Herald Tribune: "We just agreed to disagree. I like the Herald Tribune and we've had pleasant relations. I think everyone understands there was a difference of opinion. ... It goes back to the campaign, so what's the use of talking about it now?" Herald Tribune men doubted that any syndicate could better its record...
...till the next deal. On the other hand he might very likely sense that our face-down cards include a population sixty percent against war and a Congress which wrangles over every action. He might step into Singapore, which in this case is the pot, and demand a showdown. The next move would...
...this week to find its transportation system crippled. President L. M. Spiers of British-owned Mexican Tramway Co. asked Avila Camacho to declare the strike illegal, accused Nazis and Communists of fomenting it. It seemed probable that Avila Camacho, in the seventh week of his administration, faced a showdown with organized labor...
...self-established claims to sovereignty as far out as nine miles. Three Mexican gunboats were on duty near by at the time. U. S. interference with a Mexican ship, in Mexican waters, in the presence of Mexican warships was a grave matter. The time had come for a showdown on how far sensitive Latin Americans would sacrifice their pride for the sake of security measures they had helped establish...