New Britain herald., 1927-01-12
Secretary Tells Senate Committee Latin America Also Is Head- quarters For Anh-U. s. Agitations.
Message, Given Out by Borah, Insists These Countries Play Big Part in Bolshevik Plan for World Revolution.

Washington Jan. 12 0P-Latln America and Mexico are conceived as "a base" for communist activity" against the United States, Secretary Kellogg said today in a document subrnitted to the senate foreign rela- tioLs committee and made public by Chairman Borah.
 Bolshevik Program
 The Bolshevik leaders have had very definite ideas with respect to the role which Mexico and Latin America are to play in their general program of world revolution" the document said.
 They have set up as one of their fundamental tasks the destruction of what they term American imperial ism as a necessary prerequisite to the successful development of the international revolutionary move- ment in the world"
 Secretary Kellogg quoted a reso- lution of the third international set- ting up as one of the purposes of that organization the task of unit ing the national struggle against American imperialism in individual continent, embracing the workers of all countries of Latin America and the revolutionary forces of the United States"
 MeXlco is natural connecting link between the movement of the United States of North America and Latin America the cited resolution continued, therefore, Mexico must be the center of the union."
 The propagation ot commun.s, ideas and principle. In the various countries of Latin America" Secre- tary Kellogg said. lis considered sec- ondary to the carrying cn Of propa- ganda against the aims and policies of the United States"
 Thus Latin America and Mexico are conceived as a base for activity against the United States. Commit nists in the United States have been repeatedly instructed to de- vote special attention to the strug- gle against American imperialism in Latin America and to the or ganization of resistance to the United States"
 The secretary quoted an extract from a report by Tchitcherin, for eign secretary of the soviet govern ment, saying that Mexico gives us a very convenient political base in America for the development of further ties.'
 The report, made at the third session of the union central commit tee in March, 1925, was quoted fur ther as follows:
 Tn America, in this manner. VIC still stand before a question mark. But we have succeeded in re-estab- fishing diplomatic relations, which give Us a political base in the new continent, with the neighbor of tho United States. Mexico. The Mexi- can government is based on the right trade unions and the radical small bourgeoisie.
 'rhe soviet republic is extraor- dinarily popular in Mexico. "ss Mexico gives us, thus, a very con- venient political base in America for the development of our further ties"
 Washington. Jan. 2 GP}-A double inquiry into President Coolidge's Nicaraguan policy was begun today in congress.
 In a secret session that was pro- longed through the afternoon, the senate foreign relations committee heard Secretary Kellogg explain why American marines are on Nicaraguan soil and why the United States has recognized one regime there while Mexico is sanctioning another.
 At an open hearing the house