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...Calles Government betrayed a not unnatural jumpiness last week, while Secretary Kellogg was whooping up his "Red Mexico" scare in Washington (see p. 6). President Plutarcho Calles knew, and has admitted publicly, that if the U. S. should withdraw its embargo on arms' shipments into Mexico a new revolution would detonate his regime overnight. Therefore, since it could not be known at Mexico City that President Coolidge was not really going to lift the embargo, the Calles Government committed several hysterical acts...
...speaker, forthright, vehement, was not the President of Mexico, Plutarcho Elias Calles. He was instead the Chairman of the U. S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Senator William Edgar Borah. He was commenting on the release to the press last week of an exchange of notes between the U. S. and Mexico. He concluded: "There is a difference of view between the two Governments as to the effect of Mexico's Constitution and laws upon property of Americans. . . . Undoubtedly emphatic language has been used. . . . But I do not find in the notes any threat, any ultimatum. ... I do not think...
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