Word: mexicans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Some 30,000 Roman Catholics overflowed Philadelphia's Convention Hall last Sunday to hear Michael Cardinal Dougherty & others belabor the Government of Mexico for its mistreatment of their Church. Meanwhile other Catholics zealously stirred the still cold pot of a Congressional investigation of Mexican "religious persecutions" which Senator Borah had put on the fire in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee...
...Mexican Government pursues its so-called "Revolution" on a formula of feeling out how much it can get away with. Last week it turned from its efforts to find out just how serious Mexican Catholics are about their religion and lit on the internationally-owned Mexican Eagle Oil Co., a $35,000,000 affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell. For the past three years a Mexican company called Commercial Petroleum, whose chief asset is its story that it has the rights to a valuable Eagle oil field, has been suing Eagle with great success in the Mexican courts. Appealing last month...
...said the prevailing wage amendment to the Works Relief Bill was adopted last week to prevent lowering "the American working man to the status of the Mexican peons...
...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...
Undoubtedly more harmonious relations could be maintained with the Mexican Government should Mr. Daniels be pushed upstairs--if need be to a seat in the Cabinet or some executive position under the Administration. A cordial, restrained, and tactful man of the type of Dwight Morrow is needed down in Mexico City, an ambassador who can readily adjust himself to the Latin game of international relations and yet retain a warmth of sympathy and understanding of their vexatious problems...