MEXICO: The Indian Returns

The postulates of the Atlantic Charter are not mere phrases written on paper. We have faith in the statesmen who signed them. And in support of these statesmen are the peoples who, like our own, thirst for a better order of things, a better democracy and a better world."

Thus did President General Manuel Avila Camacho address last week's opening session of the Mexican Congress. He was explaining to his people the reason why war reached across wide expanses of oceans and crossed high mountains of prejudice to disturb the siestas of even the humblest peon. He talked of a "new...

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