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The article reports on the outcome of the enactment of Public Law 229, which is designed to facilitate the importation of foreign workers to the U.S. The law aims to restrict labor piracy in the fields. In March 1944, foreign workers provoked the police into counteraction after forcing to enter Mexico City, where registration for enlistment and transportation to the U.S. was being arranged. Mexican President Avila Camacho, in response, issued a proclamation or easement absolving Mexican agrarians in the U.S. from farming their land grants.

The article mentions the move of the Banco de Mexico to encourage hoarding by providing unlimited quantities of gold at 5,520 pesos a kilogram.

The article discusses the use of acrylic paint in art. It says that Mexican artists were among the first to experiment with the medium as a means of preserving their work, as acrylics are impervious to temperature, cracking aging. The other advantage of acrylics is that they can be applied on most surfaces, even ordinary paper such as those used for wrapping. A description of how the author works, which involves laying it out on a butcher's tray and treating the material like watercolors, is included.

The article features artist Bernard Pfriem. He was born in Cleveland, Ohio in 1916. He taught night classes at the Cleveland Institute of Art while attending day sessions as a scholarship student. He won traveling fellowships from the Institute and Western Reserve University after graduation and worked on murals in Mexico. His style evolved from figurative expressionism to semi-cubistic abstractions and became obsessed with self-portraits after separating from his wife. Also mentioned is his preference for the mysterious, the provocative and the unknown.

The article reports that the frozen papaya from the Philippines is now being packed in Mexico by Frosted Food Products.

The article reports on the new mining law in Mexico. It mentions that the law requires foreign-owned mining companies, mostly U.S., to sell controlling interest to Mexicans. It notes that the government is buying or investing in the sectors that need government participation through tax incentives, import licenses, and political pressure. It aims to push private Mexican capital into industrial investment.

The article focuses on the popularity of land in the west coast of Mexico among U.S. investors and speculators in 1959. It notes that beach fronts are selling at a bargain price of 16 dollars and U.S. investors are quietly purchasing choice sites either for personal use or future resort development. It notes the emergence of de luxe hotels and motels, new paved roads and airstrips as a result of the land boom. It details the legal aspect of foreign ownership of land along the beach or frontier.

The article reports on Celanese Mexicana SA de CV, a subsidiary of U.S.-based Celanese Corp. in Mexico. Recently, the company had to face tough times in Mexico due to the economic downturn in the country, increasing competition, and the end of tax breaks. Celanese Mexicana is expected to go through a reorganization and is expanding into new products currently.

Despite the advent of Pierre Laval, full collaboration between Vichy France and the Axis is proving a slow growth. The underground resistance of French patriots is spreading in direct proportion to the intensity of the terror tactics designed to stamp it out. For all his tremendous paper power the Chief of Government can do nothing to quell it. With Mexico's entry into the war the United Nations have won an ally whose opposition to fascist aggression, from Ethiopia to Spain, has been admirably consistent. The administration's policy on wages became somewhat clearer last week when the President openly opposed the granting of voluntary wage increases by three West Coast aircraft corporations. The action was taken on the ground that the proposed increase would unsettle wage scales throughout the industry and might contribute to general labor unrest.

This article focuses on the visit of French President Charles de Gaulle to Mexico. Whether or not the General is wholly sincere, he has built himself up as a champion of "national independence" and has been praised for it by men as different as Indian Prime Minister Jawahar Lal Nehru. De Gaulle certainly has a way of getting `both himself and France talked about. The papers in the U.S. have been full of press quotes about his Mexican visit-quotes from China, Japan, India, England, Latin America and, above all, the U.S.

Presents several letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. Response to the political conditions in Mexico criticizing the stand of the journal for armed intervention for Mexico's redemption; Response to the article "Beclouding the Minimum Wage," by Professor Taussig in the July 22, 1916 issue citing the impact of the minimum wage on the number of people for employment; Response to the article "The Feminist's Age," by Hester A. Hopkins in the July 22 issue regarding the relationship between feminism and chivalry;.

The article offers information on the Seventh World Petroleum Congress held in Mexico City in April 1967. It is stated that the scientists and technicians of the oil industry from 80 different countries attended the conference. Among the subjects discussed at the conference were kinetics of high-sulfur distillate hydrotracting and ozonolysis of olefins in reactive nucleophiles.

Focuses on various socio-political developments that took place in the world. Information on the Germans' attack on a newly opened recruiting office of the world-citizenship movement launched in Paris, France; Reference to a special press conference called by U.S. General Douglas MacArthur in Japan; Announcement made by Daniel F. Malan, Prime Minister of South Africa, about the voting rights of colored people in the country; Complaint of the British newspaper owners about rations of newsprint; Spread of foot and mouth disease among cattle in a village in Mexico; History of the Arch of Titus which stands at the far end of the Roman Forum.

The article offers information on the expansion of Ferro Enamel Corp. to Mexico, where it will be building its eighth foreign subsidiary in Mexico City. It states that Ferro has been well received offshores since it constantly stimulates new enameling business locally. Ferro expects that in Mexico U.S. manufacturers of refrigerators, stoves and other enameled products will set up that will provide a healthy market for the company's Mexican frit.

The article features a photograph of a 17-ton trailer dump wagon, built by Heil Co., specially designed for highway construction in Mexico and Alaska, that gives maximum ground clearance for rough terrain.

The article reports on the flour contracted by the Mexican government from mills in Texas and Oklahoma. With the government's acquisition of 300,000 counterweight (cwt) flour, millers and the food industry believe that U.S. flour will flow across the border at the rate of 300,000 to 400,00 cwt a month. The Mexican government has acquired the flour without tariff barrier. The renewal of flour trade with Mexico is reportedly due to several factors including the boost of tariff to protect Mexican flour mills.

The article discusses the plan of the U.S. government to revive the government-operated railroads in Mexico in 1944. Topics discussed include the impending collapse of the railway operator, Ferrocarriles Nacionales de Mexico due to deficiencies in equipment and operating techniques and an overview of the rehabilitation program for the Mexican railroads by the U.S. Technical Railroad Mission headed by Missouri Pacific R.R. executive Oliver M. Stevens.

The article presents information on a report that was concluded by the Mexican-American commission in July 1943 concerning economic cooperation between Mexico and the U.S. The report indicated the approval by the commission of plans to develop several Mexican industries including utilities, agriculture, and transportation. The commission suggested the expansion of industries that have an impact on war markets.

The article reports on the new labor pact signed between U.S. embassy officials and the Mexican foreign office which provides Mexican authorities the chance to supervise individual employment contracts thereby ending the ban on migration of Mexican workers to the U.S.

he article presents information on the banking problems in Mexico. As the result of the irresolute and weak banking policy of the Government and the inability and corruption of many of the high officials in the banks of issue, these corporations reached the revolutionary period, with very few exceptions, in a state of total demoralization and certainly more than half of them in a condition of practical bankruptcy. It has been said that the old banks of issue were ruined by a compulsory loan of fifty-three million pesos imposed upon them in 1916.

The article reports that Emilio Azcarraga, a radio and film personality in Mexico, has made two moves that have brought him to the forefront of television in the country. In the beginning of January 1953, Azcarraga officially opened the new 3-million dollars Televicentro at Mexico City, and also finalized a deal with his biggest video competitor, Romulo O'Farrill. The deal is said to pull Mexican television out of its initial stage.

In this article the author presents his experiences of a journey to Mexico. The sketchiness of news in the Mexican papers is one element in the curious aspect that sensational and tragic events assume in Mexico -- or at least assumed for the author. The author thinks another, more important one, has to do with the quality of Mexico itself. Mexico is theatrical -- its climate, its scenery, its history, its social landscape, its people; and in this context sensational current events seem of a piece, not extraordinary.

The article focuses on the significance of the U.S.-Mexican economic pact with the helpfulness of the solution to problems below the Rio Grande to guarantee the trade foreseen by Americans with Mexico. The U.S.-Mexican pact is likely to give some aid to Mexico's confidence in silver and paper. The economic mission of the U.S. to Mexico follows in the face of other groups of experts who made a survey on the Latin American horizon.

On May 22, 1940, the Mexican President officially and flatly denied the existence of "fifth-column" activities in Mexico and declared that all such rumors were an invention of the country's enemies for obvious political ends. On the early morning of May 24, and as if to belie the president's categorical statement, came the attack on police guard Leon Trotsky. A score of men, disguised in police and regular-army uniforms and heavily armed with machine-guns and automatic pistols, overpowered Trotsky's permanent police guard of five and poured a barrage of machine-gun fire into his bedroom for several minutes. Trotsky's secretary, Sheldon Harte, either fled or was kidnapped-at any rate he has disappeared. Two cars were driven away from the garage and later abandoned. In spite of the hundreds of shots fired, no one, fortunately, was injured.

The article offers a look at the industrial development program of Mexico as of June 1944. The country's industrial rehabilitation and development is expected to bring a strong light industries which can compete for the domestic and export business and a substantial demand for heavy industrial equipment. The rapid shift of the economy toward manufacturing and service enterprises is seen to be balanced by mechanization and technical improvements in agriculture. INSETS: LATIN AMERICA III;TRENDS IN THE MEXICAN ECONOMY.

This article reports a long student strike in Mexico that has been initiated on July 26, 1968, involving over 100,000 students of the National University and twenty-nine affiliated schools. The army has invaded several campuses during when many students have been killed. A sequence of marches of students and their parents, teachers, college professors, and small business workers were reported every day. These groups could be identified by their banners and flags. This social movement was reportedly aimed to demand for the removal of Mexican Police Chief Cueto Ramirez and two of his officials; dissolution of the riot police; repeal of article 145 of the constitution; indemnification of the families of slain students, and freedom for all political prisoners.

The article focuses on the economic prosperity and growth in Mexico.

This article presents information on Diego Rivera's mural in the dining-room of the Hotel del Prado in Mexico. The archbishop of Mexico refused to bless the hotel on its opening ceremony as the mural contains the inscription "Dios no existe," which means that god does not exist. There has been widespread criticism of the mural. The Del Prado mural is Diego's first serious large-scale painting in some time. Entitled "Sunday in the Alameda"--the Alameda is an ancient park facing the hotel, and the scene of many historical events--it depicts Mexican history.

The Empress of Mexico has been staying very quietly at the Hotel du Louvre, which establishment, from the elegance of its appointments and its proximity to the Tuileries, has come to be the usual stopping-place of majesties, royal and serene highnesses, and members of other exalted classes of humanity who may chance to visit Paris incog. It is said that the Empress, who possesses great energy of will, surprised her husband one day lately in the act of writing a formal act of abdication; that she seized the pen from his hand and tore up the paper, promising him at the same time that she would go to Paris and make a last attempt to procure from Napoleon the aid which should enable the new empire to maintain its ground against the anarchists.