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Show U. S. - MEXICO DIPLOMATIC BREAK LIKELY W'ASIIINCTu.W Nov. L'l. (I'l'l A hreak ill diploinatie relations lie-tween lie-tween the I'nitecl States and Mcxii-u was freely liredieteil here today following fol-lowing an exehange of four notes heiween the two government s. Disagreement Kevealed The notes revealed complete disagreement dis-agreement over application of the .Mexican uHeu land and nil laws, affecting .'Jl.ihKl.ijiili.liotl of American property rights, but did not mention men-tion the underlying friction between ihe two governments over alleged Mexican radical activities in (Jeu-1 (Jeu-1 ral America. Secretary Kellogg's concluding note of (let. ."), was interpreted in informed quarters as a virtual ultimatum ulti-matum that a rupture will result if Mexico enforces iis law invalidating oil titles of Americans, who refuse to exchange before January first such titles for fifty year "concessions." "conces-sions." Warning Closes Note The Kellogg note closed with this "The issues have lieen plainly defined and my government in eon-elusion eon-elusion reasserts that it expects the government of Mexico, in accordance accord-ance with the true intent and purpose pur-pose of the (Warren-fnyne) negotiations nego-tiations of culminating in the recogniliou of the government of -Mexico hy this government, to respect re-spect in their entirely the aecjltircd properly rights of American citizens, citi-zens, which have been the subject of our discussion, and expects the -Mexican government not to take any action under the laws in question and the regulations issued in pursuance pursu-ance thereto, which would operate, either directly or indirectly, to deprive de-prive American citizens of the full ownership, use and enjoyment of their said properties and property rights." |