Word: oiling
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...petroleum regulations just promulgated by President Calles . . . would appear to bring to a practical conclusion the discussions which began ten years ago with reference to the effect of the Mexican Constitution and laws upon foreign oil companies. The Department feels, as does Ambassador Morrow, that such questions, if any, as may hereafter arise can be settled through . . . the Mexican administrative departments and the Mexican courts...
Thus the Department warned U. S. oil men that if they do not choose to abide by the Morrow-Calles status quo, created last week, they can no longer count on State Department aid in bucking the Calles hegemony in Mexico...
...rights held by foreigners in Mexican oil properties prior to the adoption of the Mexican Constitution of 1917 will be confirmed...
...nature of the "rights" possessed by U. S. holders of Mexican lands in 1917 shall include "oil rights" only in case it can be proved that they performed some "positive act" showing that they were developing or proposed to develop their lands to produce oil...
Clearly, Ambassador Morrow takes the large view that it would be futile to try to exact from Mexico the confirmation of "oil rights" to persons whose lands had shown no trace of oil in 1917-when Mexico embarked upon a Constitutional régime definitely conserving future Mexican oil discoveries to Mexicans...