The times-news. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1927-current, 1938-04-30
MEXICO PLANS
TAXCUT As TO
. j. 5. LUXURIES
Latin Countries Wrestle
With Problem of Foreign
ers, Politics
BY JOHN M. WEBER
u. p. Latin American Editor

NEW YORK, April 80. (UP).
One presidential campaign ended
this week while another got I'M
derway as politics and new laws
affecting foreigners dominated
Latin American news.
In Colombia, Eduardo Santos,
Bogota publisher and liberal
party candidate to succeed Presi-
dent Alfonso Lopez in next Sun
days elections, wound up whirl-
wind speaking tour and went
home to speculate on the size OF
his vote. UnoppOsed because of
the conservative party's decision
to abstain officially from the cleo
tons, Santos was assured of be-
ing elected the third consecutive
liberal president since DR.. Enrl-
que Herrera won in 1890 to
break four years of conservative
control. Olaya, barred by the con-
stitut!on from succeeding himself,
was being groomed to run again
this wear but his death in Rome
early in 1897 forced the party to
seek another candidate. Santos,
representing the right-Wing lib
erals, was nominated last August
by the party convention. He will
be inauguratcd in August for the
1882 term.
Chilean right-wing parties,
chiefly conservatives and liberals,
started their campaign for the
October presidential elections by
nominating former Finance Min
lister Gustavo Ross as a coalition
candidate to oppose a stlll-to-be
designated popular front stand
ad-bearer. The Scotch-Chilean
Ross, who once quit Chile to set
tie in France in disgust over die
tatorShip" trends in his native
land, was recognized as the
strong man" of the cabinet while
he served as finance minister, but
his nomination already has caused
rumors Of possible split in right
ist ranks. Such a break in the
conservative liberal coalition
would be disastrous to their
chances in view of the popular
front strength, bolstercd by the
radical party, potentially the most
powerful in the country. Recent
nationwide municipal elections
showed right-wing majority, but
with the presidential election still
six months away and because for
eigncrs and women vote in the
municipal contests while only
male citizens may ballot for preSi-
dent, victory is still uncertain. for
Ross unless his supporters stick
together,
In Brazil, the government of
President Getulio Vargas, in a
move to supplement immigration
laws designed to prevent entry in
to the country of undesirable al
lens, decreed deportation Of for
cigners "who commit crimes
against the integrity Of the state. "
ne upClCC was ICSdlucN do dliISh
particularly at Communism and
Fascist elements because of the
first provision that foreigners
convicted of endangering public
order, national security or the
structure of Brazilian institutions
be expelled.
These and previous anti-Fascist
measures were counter-balanced
somewhat by BraziPs recognition
of Italy's Ethiopian conquest, a
"realistic" diplomatic move made
despite Rio De Janeiro's adher-
cnce to the Pan American doc
trinc of August, 1882, that econ
quest does not confer sover-
eighty"
Reports that Argentina plan
ned to follow Brazils lead in ban
ming Nazi and other foreign po-
litical activities we're branded as
incxact by officials of the inter-
ior ministry in Buenos Aires. Nazi
schools were recently ordered
closed in La Pampa territory, but
so far that has represented the
extent of Argentine measures
against its German resicnts.