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Show wou'.d be tantamount to accepting defeat. I:a!y has been a great help to British mcrale. Whether the late reports of riots against the government govern-ment in Italian towns are true or not. is impossible to say as "t. tut they have a reasonable sc::id. The Italian people aren't e sting any too well these days. Vital supplier, sup-plier, notably cotton, are running out. and the British blockade can be trusted to see to it that. II Duce is unable to replenish his warehouses. It looks as if Mussolini Musso-lini is at last on the down-grade. Only Hitler can keep him going. And Hitler, if he does that, will demand plenty in return, i off trying to convert Mexican people peo-ple to their doctrines, who have bribed corrupt Mexican officials, and use Uexito as a base for espionage es-pionage activities directed against the Unhid States. From now on. expect to s?e fore U. S. activity of this sort ir. other Latin American republics. Hemisphere solidarity is not just a pretty phrase this government believss it must and will be achieved. achiev-ed. It wil be done in part by making mak-ing friends. It will be done in part by helping the poorer countries economically. It wlil be done in part by throwing our prestige and power on ths sides of those who are willing to follow our lead. And. finally, some believe, if worst comes to worst and some of the republics re-publics continue to play ball with the Axis, there will be no alternative alter-native left for us save military force. Chances are that will not be necessary German and Italian influence has undoubtedly been lessening all through Latin America. Am-erica. Some reports say that Mr. 'Wallace 'Wal-lace will soon make a lengthy tour of all Latin America, as a sort of Ambassador and Plenipotentiary Plenipo-tentiary Extraordinary. That would not be surprising he seemed to make a good impression in Mexico, Mexi-co, and he is the easy-going, informal in-formal type of American Mexicans like. Helping solidify this hemisphere hemis-phere is a far more important job than the strictly routine position of President of the Senate! There can be no question now but what Britain means to see this war through to the finish. The recent re-cent proposal in Parliament that the war be ended through compromise com-promise which was massacred by a 341 to 4 vote, shows the way the wind blows. Britain feels that she can win that it may take years, but that eventually she will destroy de-stroy Nazism and Fascism in every particular. Her leaders, such as the tremendous Churchill, believe that only if this is done can the Empire survive and be secure. Compromise, say these leaders, Elections In Mexico and Ours Differ Theoretically, Mexico is a democracy dem-ocracy with a governmental system sys-tem about like that of the United States. Actually, democratic processes pro-cesses are frequently thrown over- beard in the dramatic workings of . Mexican politics. The presidential election of last July was a case in point. The backers of both candidates Avila Camacho and General Almazan did not scruple to use any kind of persuasion at their command. Voters were kept I away from the polls by main I force. Tear bas bombs were thrown 1 recklessly. The warm Mexican air was stirred by gunfire. A considerable consider-able length of time passed before the name of the winner was announced. an-nounced. It was Avila Camacho. But tough General Almazan was not satisfied, nor were his backers. back-ers. Violent protests were made. And there were rumors of that old Mexican device for settling squabbles squab-bles revolution. Revolution might have come, had it not been for one man retiring President Cardenas. Lazaro Cardenas Car-denas comes about as close to being a national hero in Mexico as any living man could. He would have undoubtedly been reelected had not the Mexican constitution ! made it impossible for him to run again. Cardenas began his career as a left winger, known for his admiration of many Soviet ideas. As his administration developed, it swung steadily to the right. And at the end it reached a sort of i happy medium between red radi-; radi-; calism and black reaction. Car-I Car-I denas went openly among the peo-I peo-I pie which is almost unknown for millrun Mexican presidents who j live surrounded by troops, in con- stant fear of an assassin's bullet. He brought opposed cliques toge-j toge-j ther. So when he said that, Al- mazan's protests not withstanding, ' Camacho would succeed hirn, the j great-bulk of Mexicans agreed, i Even Almazan finally renounced Even Almazan finally renounced all claims to the office. Camacho's election was a victory for the United States. Like Cardenas, Car-denas, he is strongly , pro-TJ. S., strongly anti-Fascist. Some of Al-mazan's Al-mazan's most outspoken backers are the reverse of that pro-Fascist, anti-U. S. Camacho accepts U. S. leadership in this hemisphere ' and will follow the foreign policy , laid down at Washington. So it was logical that Washington should j make his inauguration a great oc-1 casion. Sent South was Vive-Presi- dent-elect Wallace. Carried by Mr. I Wallace were warm expressions of regard for the President of the United States himself. The intimation intima-tion is that Mexico and this country coun-try will work more closely togeth- j er than ever and that part cf I that work will consist in ridding : the land of the Aztecs of the j Communist and Axis agents who I have been working their heads |