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...that the venerable Borah has introduced a resolution into the Senate demanding an exhaustive senatorial investigation of the persecution of religion in Mexico, it appears that America has again committed a diplomatic blunder by not observing whose toes are being awkwardly tread upon. This characteristic American attitude of interference in Latin-American affairs, many foreign observers agree, is another step in the direction of making us the most cordially hated nation on earth...
...careful examination of the facts leading up to the Borah resolution shows little justification for our attitude. On one hand we openly insult the Mexican Government by senatorial examination of their policy, and on the other hand Ambassador Daniels advances the cause of socialistic education in Mexico by openly commending recent speeches made by the President of Mexico favoring a socialistic State. Mr. Daniels personally is a very charming man. He possesses real gifts as a journalist and a politician, but the situation south of the Rio Grande calls for a genuine diplomat of the highest order, and unfortunately...
Solidest blow aimed at the Court itself in this year's battle was Senator Borah's charge that politics rather than law determines its judgments. For proof he pointed to its 1931 verdict against a German-Austrian customs treaty, when the judges divided according to the diplomatic and commercial interests of their native lands. But Senator Johnson voiced the popular argument when he cried: "We are dealing today with one simple proposition-shall we go into foreign politics ? . . . Once we are in, it does not make any difference whether we are in a little way or whether...
...days after he had finished his fight to keep other nations from meddling in U. S. affairs, Senator Borah introduced in the Senate a resolution for a U. S. investigation of religious persecution in Mexico...
...Senator Borah: "The most important Senate action since the World War. . . . Thank...