Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...arising from the kidnapping of the American named Hugo. What it all goes to show is that Carranza, no matter what he says, is pretty well able to dictate to the bandits what they shall and what they shall not do. Americans find it hard to believe that the Mexican Federal authorities are as weak as President Carranza alleges they are; when it comes to a pinch, the Mexican executive can manage to get an American freed. The point is that he sometimes does not want...
...last six years the Mexican Government has adopted the policy of goading the United States just as far as it is safe, stopping short only when it seems that open war is the next step. American troops have been on the border all that length of time, even when they were badly needed in France. Mexico has been a thorn not only in our side, but in that of Europe as well. The latter will soon reach the limit of their patience. Our much-touted Monroe Doctrine is going to be an embarrassment to any administration we may elect. Euro...
...folly of the Senate in failing to ratify the Peace Treaty, any show of force on our part would turn their suspicion into hatred and fear. Moreover, the imprisonment of the United States consular agent, Jenkins, raises a nice question of international law and of the power of the Mexican executive to free Jenkins from the jurisdiction of the Puebla state court. The whole affair gives great opportunity for subtle argument, at which the Mexicans are so adept, and their note of refusal to our government is full of hair splitting legal distinctions...
...fact remains, however, that Jenkins has received very bad treatment. He was arrested because he was caught with some bandits whom he swore had kidnapped him. As he was a consular agent, of the United States, the Mexican central government has the right to intervene in his behalf. Paragraph VI of Article 104 of the Mexican Constitution promulgated in February, 1917, expressly states that the Mexican federal tribunals shall take cognizance of all cases concerning diplomatic agents and consular officers. The refusal of the Carranza government to interfere can mean only one thing--an international break with the United States...
...after all, the Jenkins affair is only one of a long series of intolerable situations. The Mexican government has proved conclusively that it does not want or has not the power to keep order. Discounting the "shady" activities of American capitalists, discounting the exaggerated rumors of border outrages, the people of the United States have strong grounds for exasperation. Mexico is a thorn a their side seemingly impossible to extract...