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Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election uneasy Mexicans have been reflecting that the last U. S. Democratic President sent U. S. Marines to seize Veracruz briefly in 1914, sent Brigadier General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing in 1916 to stalk Bandit Pancho Villa on Mexican soil. Last week Mexico City's independent Universal Grafico startled the Capital by printing the first Mexican attack on Democrat Roosevelt...
...republic." Of the many State laws limiting clergy (the latest provides 24 churches and 24 priests for the million-odd inhabitants of the Federal District of Mexico City-TIME, Jan. 4). the Pope cites those of Michoacan (one priest for 33,000 faithful), Chiapas (one for 60,000) and Veracruz (one for 100,000). This "unheard-of persecution," exclaims Pius XI, "differs but little . . . from the one raging within the unhappy borders of Russia. . . ." What to do? The Holy Father counsels Mexican Catholics to obey the law but to protest unremittingly. "To approve such an iniquitous law or spontaneously...
Breathlessly Mexico City awaited the reaction of big-boned, hard-featured Governor Tejeda. Quick acting but slow thinking, he ordered all copies of the Official Gazette impounded, took his time to consider. To grease a few palms in Jalapa, the capital of Veracruz, to get a copy of the forbidden Gazette and publish photostats of the law was no trouble at all for the active, able journalists of Mexico City. Excerpts from Veracruz's law: "Property rights of all classes of possessions may be subject to enforced expropriation for reasons of social utility, with indemnification...
Sneered El Excelsior of Mexico City: "In one word, as if by witchcraft. . . . Governor Tejeda becomes as crafty a boss as ever was produced by the Asiatic continent . . . absolute sovereign over all property in Veracruz, a stupendous miracle which would have made Mahomet the prophet envious...
...better he liked it. Rumors from Mexico City that he would kill it only made him more stubborn. At last Governor Tejeda substituted for the word "social" the word "public" (a change of no importance ordered the revised law printed in a new edition of the Veracruz Gazette, had the old edition burned. In Jalapa and throughout Veracruz State poor persons promptly began to clamor for expropriation of everything, tenants asking that the houses in which they lived be turned over to them, farmers clamoring to own their rented acres. On international exchange the Mexican peso promptly slumped...