Religion: Catholics v. Daniels

"We must now enter into and take possession of the minds of the children, the minds of the young, because they do belong and should belong to the Revolution. It is absolutely necessary that we dislodge the enemy from this trench where the clergy are now, where the conservatives are now—I refer to education, I refer to the school."

Thus in true authoritarian style did Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles orate in Guadalajara last month. Knowing the violent anticlericalism of Mexico's Revolutionary Government,...

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