MEXICO: Revolt by Telephone

In search of the much-touted, often-postponed Mexican Revolution of 1940, correspondents last week began painfully trekking down to Chiapas, the primitive, mountainous State adjoining Guatemala. Previous Almazan revolutions have had substance chiefly in reports telephoned to Mexico City, presumably by nerve-warring Almazanistas. But this time President Lazaro Cardenas refused to accept assurances from the Governor of Chiapas, General Antonio Rios Zertuche, that the Governor had no knowledge of an up rising. He was ordered by the President to leave Chiapas at once and take over as Governor of Sonora, at the extreme opposite end of Mexico, adjoining Arizona.

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