MEXICO: Orizaba Martyr

Mexico's able young President Lázaro Cárdenas is an Old Revolutionary who would like to get the Revolution settled down on an even keel, with a minimum of bad feeling and bloodshed. To that end he last week proclaimed an amnesty for 10,000 exiles who have been convicted of some 4,000 crimes against the Revolution since 1920, invited them to get back into Mexico and behave. Many were dead; others, like Dictator Porfirio Diaz' son Felix, are back already. The invitation did not include ex-Boss Plutarco Elias Calles, now sojourning in California, who was...

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