Foreign News: Serene Rebel, Severe President

Jumpiness and severity toward Roman Catholics was again last week the mood of President Emilio Fortes Gil of Mexico, who mortally hates and fears Pope Pius XI, because he thinks that the locomotive and two cars of his Presidential train were dynamited by Roman Catholics (TIME, Feb. 18).

With a lowering scowl and a menacing jut of his heavy jaw, the SeƱor President indicated to correspondents his intense displeasure at a statement issued, last week, from a secret hiding place, by the Bishop of San Luis Potosi, now spokesman...

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