Evening star., 1934-12-16
BY GASToN NERvAL.

w YHEN Russia launched hel
first five-year plan the
wv eyes of the world were
turned toward the land o1
the Soviets. Mexico's six
year plan, to be officially inaugurated
next New Year day, may not have
the gigantic scope of Platileika, but
it is an experiment of great impor-
tance to the final success Of the So
cial and economic transformation
which Mexico is undergoing.
Foreign observers, who have been
carefully watching the changes per-
formed by the Mexican revolution
should not underestimate the signifi-
canoe of the six-year plan. 1t not
merely will affect the economic status
of the people inhabiting Mexico, but
may also influence the political ideol-
ogy of other nations of similar char
acteristics and similar problems.
To many the Mexican experiment
should be even more interesting than
the Russian, because 1t attempts to
compromise the modern trends OF
state socialism and planned economy
with a gradual collectivization of the
nations resources, without sacrificing
that concept of individual freedom
for which so much human blood has
been shed. And to those who hold
that such a compromise is not posi-
BILE, that personal freedom Is only a
fiction in world of economic slavery,
that freedom exists only in economic
security, the Mexican attempt also
should be of interest because, accord
ing to their beliefs, it should ulti-
mately prove the futility of compro-
misses on the threshold Of a new era.
Reforms Are Emphasized.
Whether they are finally proven
wrong or right in their political phi
losophy of government, the present
leaders of Mexico, in defining the aim
of their six-year plan as that OF
achieving "the economic prosperity OF
Mexico under the aegis of social JUS
tice," are acknowledging and empha-
sizing the revolutionary nature Of the
Mexican reforms, no matter how slow
the pace may be at the moment.
1t could not be otherwise. The very
name of the group which has produced
all the recent governments of Mexico
with an overwhelming support of the
Mexican people-the National Revolu-
tionary party-testifies to the fact
that the main endeavor of the present
leaders of Mexico must be the fulfill
ment of the ideals which In 1910 origi-
mated the revolution.
Tho NotionoJ PoynIi1fionoru no orfu
which is responsible for the Six-year
plan, recognized that duty when it pro-
claimed that its first mission, that of
bringing together the heretofore dis
persed groups of the revolution, having
been completed, the time had come
when it should seek to reach higher
stage in which its political action and
its economic and social activities may
be productive of more fruitful results
for the Mexican commonwealth"
Concrete Policies Framed.
This higher stage called for the
framing of its policies systematically.
in programs conscientiously studied
and drafted with a dispassionate
knowledge of the realities facing the
nation; programs carried as far as the
possibilities and circumstances OF the
moment may allow and the concrete
aims and means Of the party may re-
Quire.
As has been the case with most OF
the reforms lately undertaken in Mex
leo, 1t was Gen. Plutarco Elias Gales,
the former President and strong
man" Of the regime, who gave the