Show GILLETT FIRM IN I STAND ON MEXICO I I Speaker Says Utterance Vr Was as I Deliberate but He Bears Beare I No Hostility Washington Juno 4 Protest 4 Protest of or the Mexican embassy to the state department depart depart- department I ment at Speaker Gilletts Gillett's assertion be before before he- he I fore the tho Pan American Commercial congress that Mexico was the greatest I Impediment in the western hemisphere to o International trade drew from Mr toda today a formal statement Ir 1 He lie declared his words wortIs were true were deliberately uttered but without hostility or jingoism and he hoped did not hurt the tho susceptibilities of or an any person except the Mexican 1 I r appreciated that what I said would offend oten him and antI I was reluctant to o do tIo that that th said Speaker Gilletta state state- statement state ment but it seemed scorned to me that even at that th i risk tho the suggestions I made ought aught to go before the tho conference I I 1 thought It would be preposterous In n a discussion alon of or the tho commercial conditions con con- on this thiS' continent to have havo no allusIon allusion al- al lusIon made to Mexico whose whoso persistent persist persist- ent eat failure to observe her international obligations and to protect foreigners ner engaged in commerce has been notorious ous and is the tho most flagrant lagrant obstacle to o commercial intercourse and growth In n our hemisphere I And yet el I endeavored to make clear that hat my attitude altitude was entire entirely free tree from Crom I hostility or jingoism that I was eager that tho the United States should earn tho the permanent confidence and friendship ot of f the tho republics south of f us and that it t was for th their lr interest as ns well weH as ns ours that Mexico should become a a. safe safo region for tor foreign Corel n sojourn and Investment Invest invest- Ine lmont l- l I mont ment and that the greatest beneficiary of or such a salutary chan change o would woul be Mexico herself I |