Salt Lake Telegram | 1938-05-27 | Page 1 | Seceding Mexican State Charges Cardenas is 'Stalin Subordinate'

Seceding Mexican State Charges Ca Cardenas Is s Stalin StaI in S Subordinate u bord i nate SAN LUIS POTOSI Mexico May 27 UT General UP-General General Cedillo was as reported to have escaped by airplane ane from government fo troops who surprised him in his mountain mountain moun moun- tain hideout LAREDO Texas May 27 UP The The legislature of the Mexican state of San Luis Potosi in announcing announcing announcing an an- that the state had severed severed severed sev sev- ered relations with the central government charged President Lazaro Cardenas with being a subordinate of Joseph Stalin it was disclosed today Authoritative information reachIng reaching reaching reach reach- ing this border town revealed that steps to secede from the central centra government of Mexico were taken May 15 The legislature drew a series of articles providing for forthe forthe forthe the establishment of separate au au- au- au The charge relating to Cardenas' Cardenas Cardenas' Cardenas Carde Carde- nas' nas I purported connection with i i. i Stalin was contained in the pre pre- amble It described him as Dictator Dictator Dic Dictator Cardenas subordinate of the most sanguinary despot of all ail times times Joseph Joseph Stalin The document drawn by the legIslators leg leg- eg- eg asserted that Cardenas without measuring the consequences consequences consequences conse conse- seized oil properties owned by foreign companies to explain his economic failure and to attempt to lead astray public opinion A L I