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Bishop Diaz is secretary of the Mexican Episcopate and has long denounced President Calles for trying to subordinate the Roman Catholic Church to the Mexican Government. President Calles?solicitous for his poor, degraded, mean electorate???wants to cut down on the vested interests of the comparatively rich Roman Catholic Church in Mexico and of the very rich foreign corporations. From every oil well he sees rising a dour genie, and in every baptismal font he sees swimming a school of vermin. For the business interests U. S. Secretary of State Frank B. Kellogg has been the nervous advocate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Diaz, from Mexico | 2/14/1927 | See Source »

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