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...Daniels is a consummate jackass." So cried Monsignor Hugh L. Lamb, Chancellor of the Catholic Archdiocese of Philadelphia, in a speech about U. S. Ambassador to Mexico Josephus Daniels. "Daniels easily succumbed to the flattery of Plutarco Calles, the power in Mexico, who is known as the God-hater. He was wined and dined and private trains were placed at his disposal. . . . He has publicly expressed approval of the Socialistic and Communistic educational program...
Professor Raymond Moley returned this autumn from a two-hour conversation with General Plutarco Elias Calles, Chief of the National Revolution and "Mussolini of Mexico." In Today, considered President Roosevelt's mouthpiece by Mexicans, Professor Moley wrote: "It may be taken for granted that Calles will dominate affairs for years to come. . . . After generations of misrule, exploitation and revolution, the federation of 28 Mexican states is on the way toward recovery...
Said Mexico's Big Boss, onetime President Plutarco Elias Calles: "I regard the expulsion of archbishops and bishops as necessary. . . . They are organizing in preparation for a movement'' (i. e. revolution). Back cracked Monsignor Pascual Diaz, Archbishop of Mexico, that the clergy were doing no such thing, but that Catholics must make every effort within the law "to preserve the immutable principles of justice and morality...
...Secretary of the Navy used to boss Franklin D. Roosevelt around. Cause of the Catholic outburst against Ambassador Daniels was a speech he made in Mexico City last July when he quoted a few ''Jeffersonian'' lines on education from an earlier address by Boss Plutarco Elias Calles (TIME...
Thus in true authoritarian style did Mexico's Boss Plutarco Elias Calles orate in Guadalajara last month. Knowing the violent anticlericalism of Mexico's Revolutionary Government, not even Roman Catholics could be surprised. But alert Catholic priests got hopping mad when they learned that U. S. Ambassador Josephus Daniels had later got up before a Mexican Seminar and orated as follows...