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...called the most impressive ceremony in the history of the U.S.-Mexican diplomacy. Crowds craned. The press cheered. As if to inaugurate an era of better feeling, President Calles raised the embargo on the purchase of U. S. goods by Mexican Government offices-a retributive measure -and the ban on mail in Mexico from U.S. insurance companies- a ban required by the law which makes foreign companies invest money in Mexico" before doing business there...
Senator Glass pictured the "vital interest" of any U. S. banking group whose transactions should be vetoed while those of another were approved. He could conceive how one foreign government might "marvel and feel aggrieved" when the State Department put an embargo on its bonds while officially attesting the high credit of some other nation...
...promised: "If 100 subscribers write to TIME requesting a section on FASHION, they have it." ED. * Last week TIME stated that no more letters from Mr. Epstein would be printed. For the purpose of answering Mr. Blake's challenge (and for that purpose alone), the embargo is lifted...
...thus clandestine was an announcement last week that the U. S. Department of State will not renew the anti-smuggling treaty with Mexico which expired during the week. Mexicans feared this announcement was a hint that the U. S. intends to cancel its embargo preventing the shipment of arms into Mexico, if the Mexican Government does not yield in the matter of allegedly confiscatory land and oil laws (TIME, Jan. 25, 1926 et seq.). If the embargo is lifted a revolution in Mexico would probably follow. In any case it will be easier to smuggle liquids and solids into...
...Washington government did not deem it advisable to continue the smuggling convention." This can hardly be interpreted as anything like a threat against the Calles administration. The smuggling convention required the United States to notify Mexico of any shipment of arms into that country even if the Arms Embargo was lifted. The removal of this secondary guarantee against the indiscriminate delivery of rifles to disaffected elements in Mexico quite clearly is a warning that unless U. S. demands are satisfied the Arms Embargo itself will be lifted. That, as the State Department well knows, will mean revolution, chaos...