MEXICO: Exile by Air

Just before vespers one evening last week Mgr. Francisco Orozco y Jiminez, Archbishop of Guadalajara, accompanied by his valet, stepped into an automobile in Guadalajara and promptly disappeared. Once a huge, bull-voiced fellow, the Archbishop has long been a fortress of strength to devout peasants, a source of acute annoyance to the civil authorities. When the Mexican Government was making its first attempt to break the power of the Church (TIME, Feb. 22. 1926 et seq.), he spent three years hiding in dusty mountain canons with a price on his head....

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