The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1926-12-11
PRESSURE FOR
MEXICAN WAR
INTENSIFIE led
Rumor Preparation of
National Guard Units

WASHINGTON, Dec. o. (FP)-
Disappointed in the tone taken by
the American press toward the State
Departments bullying of Mexico on
the oil and land law issue, the "war
party in Washington and New York
is reported to be intensifyina its
pressure upon the White House to
smash the resistance of the Mexican
government to the demands of Stand
ard oil.
Mexico's new oil land laws go into
effect on Jan. l. At that time Ameri-
can oil operators in Mexico who have
not taken out leases efrom the gov
eminent on the lands they claim,
will forfeit possession. A series OF
legal disputes will begin, based on
the right of the foreigners to seek
adjustment of their claims in the
courts of Mexico. Secretary kellogg
in his recent correspondence with
the Mexican foreign office protested
against the new laws, saying that
they strike at private property.
which he declared to be the founda.
ton of civilized society. Senators
Borah, Norris and Swanson, however,
promptly replied that Mexico had a
right to deal with property as she
saw fit, if she made due payment 70:
any foreign property she might con-
| fiscate.
Mobilize Guard.
Now there is circulated in Wash
ington report that the War Depart.
ment has quietly notified the govern
ors of certain states that the national
guard from those states may soon be
called upon for duty in connection
with the difficulties with Mexico.
The hint is given that the War De
partment is expecting a call to in
wade Mexico in defense of the oil
! operators claims. Whether a com
plete scheme of invasion or conquest
OF Mexico is being worked out, and
whether the president has sanctioned
this preparation, is not explained.
But there are many signs that Coo
| lldge is being urged to break off re-
lations with Mexico on the day her
oil and land laws become effective.
Dwight Morrow Of Morgan & Co.
is said to be ono of the conspicuous
advisers of the White House who
wants relations cut off and the big
stick used. Morrow's firm is inter
ested in various basic industries be-
side oil that are affected by Mexico's
determination to guard her subsoil
minerals as national property. The
"copper" lead, silver, zinc and other
mining and smelling enterprises, thru
their several trusts, go back to Nor
gan & Co. for financial direction. or
alliance or control.
State Dept. Propaganda.
Another sinister element in the
situation is the propaganda put out
secretly to the Associated Press by
Asst. Secy. Odds in the State Depart
ment, that Mexico is a hotbed of
bolshevism that is poisoning the eco
nomic and political life of Central
America. Chandler Anderson, coun-
sci for many American claimants for
property damage against Mexico, is
credited with persuading Odds that
Mexico's government is bolshevik.
This same Anderson is reported to
be counsel for Chamorro and Adolfo
Diaz in Nicaragua-th militarist
tools Of Wall Street bankers whose
regime Kellogg recognized after
pledging himself never to recognize
Chamorro. Mexico has sympathized
with the labor-liberal regime that was
driven from power in Nicaragua by
Chamorro's military coup in 1925.
Bitter editorials in the Washington
Post, denouncing President Gales
and the Nicaraguan liberals as ag-
snts OF Moscow and enemies of the
United States, bear s.riking resem-
Glance to Anderson's statements. II
IS reported that Anderson was very
intimate with Ambassador Sheffield
curing the aatters recent stay in the
United States. Sheffield last year de-
nounced Gales and Morones Of Mex
ico as reds" of a dangerous type.
Threaten Expose.
Rumblings Of approaching crisis
in Mexican relations have been met
at the capital by threats of retalia-
ton by the progressives. Before the
war party has a chance to induce
the White House to cast the die for
aggression in behalf OF Standard Oil,
two or three senator's may keep their
promises to tear the lid of" the
Mexican oil story.
A feature of such an exposure will
be the sale OF the 1900, OO0-acre pa.
per claim Of Doheny in Mexican oil
lands to Standard Oil OF New Jersey,
and the activity OF Charles Evans
Hughes and Chandler Anderson
since that time In INSTRUMENTATION
relations.
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