The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1940-04-26
MEXICANA:

Mexico will never cease. If iron is
the curse of Sweden, oil is the equiv.
alent curse of Mexico. Secretary
Hull, growing more impatient, de-
nounced the seizure of American
possessions below the Rio Grande,
in note demanding immediate ar
bitration of Yankee claims for COM
pensation and ''just" pay-off. And,
as usual, the Mexicans took the Hull
volley, not sitting down, but decid-
eddy standing up. They know,
smartly enough, that with their Ar
gentine friends, they are the per-
feet fly in the ointment to the So
called Hull Roosevelt good-neighbor
policy, at which so many laughed in
Lima, 16 months ago.
The Mexicans, who have no good
neighborly illusions, turned out in
masses to defy Uncle 'sSam-Hull,
while the Mexican press fired off
thunderbolts of what Americans
would call July 4 oratory. In Mex
leo City, with it's magnificent eli
mate and location, President Car
denas, No. / Indian of the Arneri-
cas-, with $4,000 others, watched
10000 anti-Americans march in de-
tense of their country, as they put
it. Cardenas, generally quite sin
cere, said it was the most moving
sight he had ever seen.
And that was not all. Just to clap
the climax and out-maneuver the
maneuverers, the Mexican federal
council of Cancellation and arbitra-
ton demanded that some II Amer
lean and other foreign oil COM
panies, cleaned out by the Mexicans
two years back, should pay their
former proletarians roughly $40, 000,-
900 for severance" fee. This
hurt aplenty.
WAR TRADE:
Harry Hopkins commerce de-
partment announced that the value
of American exports had gone up
some SO per cent during the first six
months of the war abroad. Partly,
of course, it was airplanes, which
certainly are a profitable sale any
time, anywhere. Trade to Europe
was up by q per cent; to Asia, up
33 per cent; to Canada and Latin
America, up At per cent. It is to
Canada, direct, that most of the air.
craft go. The japanese against
China and the Russians against Fin
land have done quite well with their
useful imports from the United
States!
MISCELLANY:
The Dies committee had another
fearsome fuss with six workers-of-
the-world, so-called, who would not
answer questions or give away their
fellow Communist members. The
six came up in patches of three, the
second batch more bothersome even
than the first. The irritated house
of representatives voted contempt"
citations. Red-minded Earl Brow
der, jailed for a passport fraud, was
subpoenaed, with 10 others, regard
ing the passport racket.
General Francisco Franco, "reb-
el'' Spanish dictator, indicated that
he and his country intended to be
neutral and stay neutral, despite
the intense indignation felt, over
Norway and Denmark, in Spanish
America.
Rear Admiral S. M. Robinson,
u. S. NJ, said that he thought Eng
lands big battleships were more i'm
portant tactically than Germany's
planes and submarines, and so tes-
titled before senate committee of
would-be military experts.
The II anti-Semitic Christian
Frontists continued on trial at New
York. They were accused of want
ing to overthrow the U. S. govern
ment. Dennis Healy, chief prose
cutting witness, told how he took
notes on his carefully starched cuffs
at Front meetings, and treated the
worldly Frontlings to drinks and
meals at U. S. government ex-
pense. IAN old czarist trick" said
one New Yorker. Before Mr.. Healy
collapsed from nervous strain, he
said the Front talked of shooting a
dozen congressman, of making re-
tired General Mosely dictator.