Evening star., 1927-10-09
MEXICAN AMBITION
MAY BAR COOLIDGE
Reported Desire to Dominate
Havana Conference May
Keep President Away.
Ry FREDERIC WILLIAM VILE.

Although the sixth conference ol
American states will not convene at
1Javaua for another three months
c,ninous rumbings are already re
eerberating through the pan-Amerl'
ran world. They have to do with stu
etions so critical and so delicate that
president Coolidge, If he abandonS
his lively desire to attend the open
Ing of The conference, will be kept
ewav chiefly by the prospect OF de'
Calonmcnts filled with embarrassing
nossibi,ities. Discussion Of the stu
alton in question is rife in Latin
american displomatic quarters at
Washington.
rho name, Of Mexico and Cuba fg'
slre most Conspicuously III current
rommcnt. The Mexican government
rrincipallv acting through Senor i'ei'
fo de Teiada. President Caiies AM
hoes,dor 10 Cuba. is credited with a
plan to become the domlnant iae'ol
at the Havana conference. Senor de
To;ada became the dean of the dipio-
matte corps in Cuba, following the
tecent retirement of Gen. Enoch H.
Crowder as American Ambassador
THE Mexican envoy is 50 aggressive
a nersonalitv that he Is understood
10 have been transferred 10 H2Na"a
from the Mexican embassy i'll bneil"S
Aires at the urgent hehest OF lhe
Argentinian government.
Mexico Seeks Leadership.
Senor de Tejada is depicted by Latln
Americans in Washington as pel,lS
iusilv engaged in laying the 1ouliua-
tion of a comprehensive program 10
n,ake Mexican leadership paramount
n. IL
it eventuates, will be aimed at the
very first item on the conference
nranda. which concerns the perlna'
rent organization of the Pan-Amerl-
ran Union, Certain Latin American
REPUBLICS, which are hostile 10 tpe
Mexican and Nicaraguan poilcleS Oh
the United States, would like TO see
,Ie Pan.American Union abollsned.
In its place they would set up Latln
American Union, with headquarters
in one of the prominent countries
south of the Rio Grande.
Such a movement was afoot several
wears ago, in consequence of com
hnation between three or four South
american states. There is circum-
stantial evidence that a similar scheme
IS now under way in Mexico. The at
rnosphere for fomenting Latin Amer
lean Union is considered more favor
able. on the eve of the sixth confer
ence in Cuba, than ever before. be-
cause of the hostility and suspicion
which have been aroused against the
Tinted States in many Latin Amerl-
can countries during the past two
years.
Comedies With Cuban Election.
The Cuban factor, which may have
decisive effects upon President Cool
idge's travelling plans, is the clrcum-
stance that the conference period com,
cides with the time when Cuba Will
be holding a national plebiscite. The
Cuban people will vote upon a plan
adopted by the Cuban Congress, at
the instigation of the Machado gov
ernment, to extend the presidential
term from four to six years. II the
plan is ratified by the plebiscite, Gen.
Gerado Machado, whose present term
expires May 20, 1929, will continue
to rule until May, 1881.
According to Latin American com
ment in Washington, President
Machado and his political supporters
would naturally rejoice over the pres.
ence of the President Of the United
States on Cuban soil at an hour Sc
vital to their interests. The Havana
government itself might not officially
make capital out Of Mr.. Coolidge S
visit, but politicians are politicians IN
Cuba-as well as IN regions nearer
Washington-and the likelihood that
the United States Presidents coming
would be exploited by the term-exten-
zionist party is regarded as extremely
strong.
The Coolidge administration. it goes