The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-11-15


ivocal forgeries.
"The publication is only an
other item in the catalogue Of
forgeries and malicious imagin-
alton with which some news
papers try uselessly to upset in
ternational relations"
Started In Washington.
The local Hearst paper, the
Washington Herald, was select
ed to fire the opening gun in
the present drive to wreak vengeance
upon Mexico through provoking
armed intervention as Mexico is con-
sidered by Wall Street to be the lead
er of anti-imperialist sentiment in
Latin America.
1t was carefully timed as prelude
to the Pan American conference that
is to take place in Havana, Cuba, in
January, as the state department.
fears that Mexico will there lead a
movement directed against the pre-
datory designs of Yankee imperial
ism.
The story was carried simultan-
eously in copyrighted articles in the
Hearst newspapers in many cities.
Charge Aid To Sacasa.
The documents published by the
Hearst papers and branded as for
geries purport to show that the Mex
lean government of Gales placed
arms and ammunition at the disposal
of the liberal Nicaraguan forces of
DR.. Juan B. Sacasa, former president
of Mexico, who was overthrown with
the aid of invading military forces of
the United States army and marines,
to aid him in his fight against the
Wall Street puppet, Diaz, now main
tanned in power as president of the
republic against the will of the ma
jority of people in Nicaragua.
Tissue of Lies.
Aside from the charges of forgery,
which are plainly justified, the story
appearing in the Hearst papers is a
designed distortion of history. 1t re-
fers to Sacasa as heading "rebeP'
forces in a struggle against an alleged
duly constituted government, when
the facts are exactly the reverse. The
government of Sacasa was the con-
stitutional government of the coun-
try and was overthrown by force at
the instigation of the United States
government in order to seize that ter
ritory preparatory to the construction
of a canal between the Atlantic and
Pacific Oceans. This canal is con-
sidered essential for American inn
perialism in order to furnish military
and naval bases for complete domina-
ton of the Latin American countries.
Kellogg Refuses Comment.
Secretary of State Kellogg today
denied all knowledge of the docu-
ments published in the Hearst papers
and said: "The state department can
not comment upon story based up
on documents and material, concern
ing the existence and authenticity of
which it has no knowledge or infor-
nation whatsoever"
Consul Denies Plot Charge.
An article appearing in the Hears
newspapers today under the caption.
Mexico plots against the United
States" is misleading and deplorable,
according to Arturo N. Elias, Mexi-
can consul general in New York City
ii financial agent to the United
,ates.
Il find after careful reading"
Elias said in statement issued to-
day, "that the article does not deal
in any way with a Mexican plot
against the United States but alleges
that Mexico favored the cause of DR..
Sacasa in Nicaragua.
'In other words it deals entirely
with a matter between Mexicans and
the Nicaraguans which is purely the
business of these two peoples. 1t is
true it happened that the United
States government supported the side
of the conservative group in Nicara-
qua headed by Diaz, but that is a
matter between the United States and
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