The daily worker. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1924-1958, 1927-06-20
U. S, Ambassador to
Mexico Is Thru Now
Back in Washington
By HARVEY O'C0NNoR,

WASHINGTON, (FP) June 10
James r. Sheffield, Ambassador to
Mexico, has quit. Although he has
not yet formally handed in his resig-
nation, he returned from Mexico in
the midst Of q crates Of household
furniture and Immediately hurried to
Washington to confer June II with
Secretary Of State Kellogg
Ever since his appointment in the
fall Of 1924, Sheffield has followed q
Strong" policy in insisting that Mr.
Mellon secretary of the treasury and
other heavy American investors in
Mexican oil lands be protected from
Mexican laws looking toward ma
tionalization Of natural resources.
Was "Indiscreet."
Rumors of Sheffield's impending
resignation have been rife in Wash
ingtoh since last spring when docu-
ments revealing that he had actively
encouraged enemies of the Gales
government to start revolutions fell
into the hands Of the Mexicans. An
international incident of the first
water resulted with claims that in
structions from Secretary Kellogg
advising Sheffield how to apply the
STRONG" policy to Gales had been
forged and diplomatic pouches en-
tered.
Ambassador Teller was recalled
hastily to Mexico City and cable wires
fairly sizzled with diplomatic assur-
ances from the State Department
that the contents of the instructions
to Sheffield and his replies had been
tempered with" and were not true
reflections Of the American attitude.
Gales graciously accepted the pro-
testations, but with the tacit under
standing that Mr.. Sheffield's sphere
of usefulness had been quite ended
and that he would be retired as soon
as convenient excuse offered itself.
Immediately thereafter both Presi-
dent Coolidge and Secretary Kellogg
moderated their clustering tone to-
ward Mexico and sweet assurances
that the Mexican oil controversy
could be worked out amicably were
passed to the press. This contrasted
sharply with previous statements of
Assistant Secretary Of State Odds, a
law partner of Kellogg, to press as
sociations in a non-quotable interview
that Mexico was behind the Nicara-
guam trouble, was seeking to create
"bolshevist hegemony from the Rio
Grande to Panama" and was in gen.
eral the enfant terrible of the North
American continent.
Enemy OF Labor.
Sheffield is reported by American
49, ~, who have been in Mexico |
during his tenure, to have found the
workers and peasants movementsthere
extremely distastefuI. He hated the
idea of the underlying population
a revolution and. getting
away with it. He suspected Gales
and his associates darkly of undue
friendliness toward the Soviet Union
in recognizing that country and ac-
cepting Nine. Alexandra Kollontai as
envoy.
Mexican officials themselves re-
turned the compliment, declaring that
Sheffield's blood and thunder policy
lacked support in Washington, that
when Messrs. Coolidge and Kellogg
wanted Mexican advice they called in
Charles Beecher Warren, former am
bassador, Charles Evans Hughes.
counsel for Standard Oil, and Dwight
f. Morrow of J. P. Morgan e. Co.
rather than leaning on Sheffield's
say-so. When he returned to Mexico
recently after consulting with the
State Department, Sheffield was
greeted by petty chief of the divi-
sion of protocols although usually
high officials turn out on such occa-
sions.
Sheffield, held responsible for KEEL
logg's amazing assertion two years
ago that Mexico is on trial before
the eyes of the world" for attempting
to nationalize her natural resources,
will be succeeded by John w. Gar
rett, former ambassador to Argen-
tina, according to State Department
attaches. Garrett speaks Spanish,
which Sheffield disdained to learn.