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Show END OF MEXICAN CONTROVERSY NOT IN SIGH! MEXICO CITY, Aug. 25 (CD-Direct (CD-Direct efforts of the Mexican Episcopate Epis-copate to seek peaceful settlement of the religious controversy apparently appar-ently had ended today, and the belief was strengthening that the struggle between church and state might continue con-tinue for several years until the Calles regime has been succeeded by some other. The determination of the Episcopate Episco-pate committee consisting of Bishop Pascual Diaz and Archbishop Ruiz, both full-blooded Indians, to suspend sus-pend direct efforts for peace left the situation where it was when the churches were closed almost a month ago in protest against the religious law promulgated by President Presi-dent Calles. Despite various projects by lay Catholics and others to present pre-sent a reform bill" or .petition to congress, the day when the church would resume services was believed to be far distant. It is, w:ell known here that the Episcopate has the pope's authorization authoriza-tion for continuation of the passive resistance program, which circumstance circum-stance emphasized the possibility that the struggle may be of long duration. The Calles administration, still has about two years of office before it and should it be continued in power by the next election there would be six years in which the. church scarcely could Dope 'to obtain congressional, con-gressional, judicial or administrative relief from the laws it finds so objectionable. ob-jectionable. There is. of course, the possibility of revolution which might substitute for Calles an exo-ulive exo-ulive in sympathy with the church or one who might be more engrossed in the urgent business of making his position more secure than in enforcing en-forcing the religious luw. |