MEXICO: New President, Old Job
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After that the Avila Camacho regime will have to buckle down to the very real job of trying to make its great sprawling country of 700,000 square miles of jungles and fields, mountains and deserts, and its 12,000,000 Mexicanos and 4,000,000 Indians function and make sense as a modern State. Nobody from the end of Colonial times through Cárdenas had been able to turn the trick. Avila Camacho might be able to do it with his common sense, honesty, proved neighborliness and the good brown eyes.
*In the past year unlucky but durable Mr. Mydans has also been roughed up in France, Sweden and Italy.
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