Evening star., 1926-11-20
BACKGROUND OF EVENTS
BY PAUL Y. COLLINS.

The activities Of the Communists
In Mexico and Central America ap-
pear to be gathering force, for it is
reported that an army Is being
organized in Mexico City under the
sanction of the Liberal government
Of President Gales. with the view
Of invading Nicaragua. 1t fs also
reported that the Mexican minister
to Ecuador has been expelled from
that country because his cOmmunistic
propaganda was too strong to be
further tolerated, even by the Liberal
government, while in Chile the cabi-
net has fallen because it was not
vigorous enough to meet popular de
mands that it enforce the law
against communistic activities look
ing to a revolution.
The attitude of Mexico in regard
to communism 10 indicated very
plainly by her recent welcome to
the Russian minister plenipotentiary
and envoy extraordinary, Nine. Ko-
Iantay, who was denied permission
even to pass through the United
States en- route to her post In
Mexico, because of her prominence
in communism in Russia. Nine.
Kolantay stands next to Lenin as
leader in communism and the world
revolution and Is head of all work
among women for communism. She
could not be welcomed In any
ca pital which was not in sympathy
with such doctrines. She had al
ready been refused admission to
Sweden, for the same reasons as
those which barred her from the
United States-advocacy Of COM
munism. She advocates abolition Of
the family and naturalization of
children, so that they will be nursed,
fed and educated by the state. She
has been quoted as stating: THE
family is ceasing to be a necessity
Of the state as 1t was In the past;
on the contrary, 1t Is worse than
useless"
Also: "Henceforth the worker
mother. who is conscious of her
social function, will rise to a point
where she no longer differentiates
between yours and mine; she must
remember that there are henceforth
only our children"
Before any diplomat ia accredited
to a post in foreign nation. the
administration OF that nation Is
asked whether the proposed omcial
will be acceptable. Nine. kolantay,
as the first woman commissar OF
the Lenin- Trotsky administration Of
Soviet Russia. and the leader OF
communism among women, was
thus welcomed by President Gales
" X n X
Mexico's anita gonism to the church
IN not limited to the foreign priest
hood. If it champions communism or
socialism, but it thus becomes allied
directly with atheism, according to
the announcements, not alone OF the
church representatives. but also of
the defenders of socialism and com
munism.
Secretary Of State Kellogg a short
time ago addressed the Interparlia-
mentary Union Conference in the Ma
tional Capital, and said:
parliamentary governments are
facing as grave problems az at any
time within the memory OF man now
living. There are forces at work for
the disintegration of orderly repre-
sentative governments and for the
esta blishment Of class rule. which
may well give us serious thought.
I cannot be blind to the forces
which are working in many of the
self lf.governing countries for the de-
struction of really representative gov
ernments and the establishment of
class tyranny of the majority. as arbi-
trary and detrimental to human lib
erty as the tyranny of monarcfss.'
From O later speech by another
prominent Washingtonian we take
this paragraph:
Other representatives of world
powers at the Interparliamentary
1Tntnv1 TAnfnrannA oil rnad 0f fhA
hclshevist nightmare which threatens
civilization. and those who watch the
signs Of the times know that in our
own America this malevolent move
ment is gaining strength. power and
impetus in its steady march to over
turn and destroy our constitutional
gcvernment." a