The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1925-06-26
CHAOS LIKELY
TO RESULT If
! GALES FALLS
Kellogg Sheffield Warning Is
i Now Considered DipIo- =
matte Blunder.
BY william Philip Simms
Tirses Washington bureau.
1929 Ne4O York Avenue

BY william Philip Sirnms
II isas Weso York Avenue.
WASHINGTON, June 26.-It is
beginning to dawn on officials high
in the Coolidge administration that
the Kellogg Sheffield warning to
Mexico is likely to prove the most
costly diplomatic blunder of q decade.
While evidence continues to pile
up that all Latin America is in
censed over what it CONSTITUTES as the
bullying Of one Of it's members,
officials here have been told by OBJ
servers just returned from Mexico
that foreigners there are fearful lest
things now take turn for the worse
instead of better.
Chaos May Result
The overthrow of President Gales,
officials have been warned, almost
surely would lead to a dog-fight for
power, as antagonistic leaders fought
to gain control. Not one, but
several. civil wars would likely
break out in as many different parts
VA LllC OOullIly lC0dAtAl1S AL OAOO0J
ruin not only for Mexico, but for
foreign interests as well.
The indications are that Anbas
sador Sheffield, new to Mexico and
70 diplomacy, was misled by the tales
OF a handful of disgruntled Aneri-
cans. Apparently the majority of
Americans are friendly to Gales. On
the very heels of the Kellogg in
cident they entertained Minister Of
Commerce and Labor Luis Morones
at banquet and heard his state
Tnent that while Mexico fully rec
ognized her responsibilities abroad,
slie stood prepared to dig her own
grave in defense of her right to
manage her domestic affairs.
~ Kellogg Beginner
Secretary of State Kellogg has
been in his present position only a
few months, coming into it fresh
from his post as ambassador to
Britain, which country is hostile to,
and does not recognize, the Mexican
government British interests south
OF the Rio Grande are being looked
after by United States diplomatic
representatives there.
DR.. Ernest Gruening of Boston,
a writer and expert on Mexican af-
fairs, stopped over in Washington
especially to see certain officials. He
Is personally acquainted with Presi-
dent Gales and other Mexican states
men, and was in Mexico City when
Secretary Kellogg's warning to
Gales dropped like bolt from the
blue.
Inopportune Time
''It could not possibly have come
at more inopportune moment" DR..
Gruening told the writer. II have
spent considerable time in Mexico
and have watched every move down
there since the flight of Diaz. And
in all truth J can say do not re.
member a time when life and prop
erty were safer there than they are
at present.
President Gales came into office
with an ugly situation on his hands
The poems fooled time and again by
their political leaders, had been
promised land and were inclined to-
take ii when and where they found
it. Federal authority was weak in
many States. Local authorities often
defined the capital. Bandit bands
roamed the country, wrecking trains,
killing and robbing. The treasury
was almost empty. Many State en-
ployes had not been paid for weeks.
And so on.
Gales Boss Now
''Calles now has the situation
fairly well in hand. If let alone, or
given encouragement, he will ulti-
mately have it completely SO.
Abuses by peasant land grabbers are
comparatively rare. Banditry has
all but ceased to exist. Trains run
pretty much on time and without
danger Graft has nearly disap-
peared. Back salaries have been
paid and $40,000,000 saved toward a
new State bank. Within six months
this should be going and the fund
ing of foreign debts begun. Gales
Is fast strengthening Mexico out.
I'm the midst of this promising
situation came the Kellogg warning
in Mexico looked upon as an open
encouragement to revolutionists.
I do not believe a single foreign
interest down there, American or
other--aside from a few chronic in
Observation-Disclosures the KEEL
logg incident. tn the contrary, I
am confident that the vast major
ity, including even the great oil in
terests, consider Gales a rock 20
cling to- Most people talked with
and they were representatives,
that If Callss falls, they will face
ruin as half dozen revolution
airy leaders begin to fight for power"