LATIN AMERICA: Mexico

Personalities who loomed in the news last week as President Calles and his militant pan-Mexican henchmen continued to enforce the anti-Roman Catholic* Mexican Constitution (TIME, Aug. 9 et ante):

Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti (Pope Pius XI) announced last week that, in view of the Mexican crisis, he would postpone his vacation. As everyone knows, the Sanctissimus Pater, goes vacationing each year, despite his self-imposed "imprisonment," by moving out from the stuffy Vatican to his cool Casino in the Vatican Gardens. During the week Bishop Diaz of Tabasco, Mexico, displayed to newsgatherers a...

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