The times-news., 1938-11-29
WATCH MEXICO

As the nations of the western hemisphere
assemble at Lima, and through their rep
resentatives undertake to formulate and
adopt plans which may have far reaching
results in years to come, warning Is beng
sounded in this country that policy OF
wide-awake watchfulness on the part OF
Uncle Sam, the big brother of the Rmerl-
can nations, will be the wise course for the
United States. Certain it is that some OF
the countries south of the United States
are out for the purpose of getting the ad-
vantage of big brother in these negotla-
tions and whatever agreements may result.
1t is not necessary to seek farther than our
next door neighbor to the south to locate
one such country.
Mexico, as a communist country and
government, will be found willy and per-
sistent in spreading the poison of commun-
ism at, Lima and in seeking for approval
and endorsement of communistic policies.
The greatest danger, perhaps, is to be
found in the effort which Mexican and
South American radicals will make to Sc
cure endorsement by the Lima convention
of certain basic principles of communistic
action in international relations.
The Texas Weekly, acquainted with
Mexico and Mexicans at close range and
armed with definite information as to con-
ditions in that country and its international
policies, discusses at some length the great
problems which will squarely confront the
Lima meeting as soon as it is convened.
We quote some paragraphs which will aid
our readers in clarifying their thinking in
regard to the relations of this country and
Mexico:
According to a dispatch from Mexico City to
The New York Times the course at Lima which
the Cardenas government has decided upon ''is not
publicly to attack the United States policies nor
to bring up the appropriation problem such, but
to push through legislative measures that will
strengthen and implement the appropriation policy
in Latin America"
%"On the thirteenth point of the Lima agenda, -
says the Times dispatch, (which calls for codifca-
ton of international law, it is Mexico's plan to
have formally included in the most advantageous
and reinforced form the doctrine that the collec-
,tion of pecuniary claims made by the citizens of
one country against the government of another
country should never be made by force Articles
in this sense, presumably inspired by the foreign
office, have been appearing for the past week in
the Mexican press
In the second place it is President Lazaro Car
denass own idea to obtain an agreement that for
eigners entering country to live and do business
must become citizens of that country. Mexican
qftleials feel that agreement on those points will
strengthen Mexcos position on expropriation, max
for
teet its nationals pecuniary interests abroad and
eliminating the grounds for such notes as Secretary
of. State COrdell Hull has written to Mexico
while the Mexican ambassador at Washington
Francisco Castillo Nejera, who will head the dele
cation, is more less conservative Mexico is send
ing IN general contingent of radicals to assist in
the PRONUNCIATION of her policy at Lima 1t is felt
here that Latin American nations will line up be
hind the policies Mexico wants adopted if onl,
for the resultant enhancement of their nationa
sovereignty, even though they entertain no imnle
date appropriation ideas'
What will happen at Lima remains to be seen
But there is this to be said about the proposals
which Mexico intends to support at the conference
they could never be countenanced in internatiopa
law In relation to government like that in Mex
leo, which makes appropriation synonyous with
eonhscatlon, and seizes property without compen
ASs-ii' ahu e'eeH "itlout any apulty TO pay, as
national policy. The first of these two proposals is
not new in Latin American discussion It is the
so-called Cayo Doctrine, as modified by Luis Maria
Drago. Carlos Calvo, distinguished Argentine in
tArnatonal lawyer, promulgated the doctrine thai
parties having financial claims in foreign coun
try, whether against individuals against the gov
ernment should seek to collect them through the
courts of that country, and not through the diplo
matte Intervention of their own governments
Prago added to this doctrine that no public debt
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