The Washington times., 1938-12-10

Mexican government has signed
agreement with Nazi Germany, Leo" ArO''NS
der which Mexico during 1889 is to swap petroleum from
seized American and British oil properties in Mexico for
German NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ST. ,00O, 900 worth.
The German merchandise will include farm, rriga-
ton and oil refining machinery and such light
featured goods as typewriters office equipment and
cameras.
The whole thing is spectacle which to us does not
make
Here we have Lazaro Cardenas, who last March
grabbed in the Of some sort of
U'UOOy munism lot of oil properties in Mexico
Inz0ro These properties had been explored, financed
and built up by American British and Dutch
capital with heavy royalties regularly collected by the
Mexican government and Mexican labor employed
Radicals the world profess to deest Adolf Hitler
than any other living human being with the
sonal exception of Bento Mussoin Yet Cardenas sells
this stolen petroleum to Hitler; barriers it, rather for
various gadgets Cardenas needs
The German army and navy will get that petroleum.
Thus Hitler will be strengthened for his unexpected
ua attempt take the Ukraine away from Josef Stan
patron saint of radicals.
AS for the gadgets Cardenas will get that
market shrunken by just that number for similar gad
gets which Americans make and have long been
accustomed to selling in Mexico. That will mean an
as yet unknown number of American workers thrown
out of jobs.
The increasing Mexican-German trade will most
likely mean that the German Nazi theology will bore
more and more deeply into Mexico. In time, we may
wake up to find that have Naz neighbor just
below the Rio Grande.
We think, as we've said before, that Leon Trotsky,
exile from Stains Russia and honored guest of Car
denas, is back of all this
For Trotsky, the Cardenas- Hitler
we OUSPeCt deals have the added beauty of
M, Tro+oL,, making life little more danger
for Stain, whom Trotsky hates
as only Trotskyte Communist hate stalinite
Communist.
that anything which makes dent in capitalist de-
mocracy anywhere is all to the good.
What we can't form theory to explain is why the
United States Government takes this stuff lying down.
Our Government only mumbled when Cardenas
first grabbed the oil wells
Why Does Uncle When William R. Castle, ex-
Cn1,o TnLo T+9 Undersecretary Of State, says
we're being too good neigh
Dor to Mexico, Acting Secretary of State Sumner
Weles hastens to contradict him, saying that every
thing is lovely.
Everything is not lovely BY taking these kicks
from Cardenas land believe Trotsky), Govern
ment is Q) encouraging Nazi Germany to take away
the Mexican market for goods produced by American
workers, and (2) encouraging other Central and
South American countries to join in the Mexican sport
of kicking Uncle Sans shins
That idea be easily implanted in the other Gen.
trail and South American countries at this Pan
American Conference in Lima All that has to be
done is for ST. DR.. Don Francisco Castillo Naiera
Mexican Ambassador to the United States and head
of Mexico's Lima delegation, to whisper to various
other delegates Look, senores, at what WE are
getting away with at the expense of the once vigorous
but so charmingy senile Colossus of the North -
The time past for to keep turning other cheeks
to Mexico.
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