Show ARMS EMBARGO MO I t Effect of Breaking U. U S.- S. Mexico Smuggling Pact Discussed WASHINGTON March l 23 AP Considerable Interest was man manifest mani- mani test fest In unofficial cIrcles today over the effect It if any that by the United States of the I smuggling cOnvention with Mexico I will have on the attitude of the American government toward lut- lut ling ing of the presidential embargo on arms Into the Central American republic Even Even- EvenIn In the face of information from the state department department depart depart- ment that President Coolidge In recent re- re cent conferences with department officials has given no no- consideration to the advisability of lifting the embargo the subject bobbed up In Informal conversations and 1 press press dispatches from Mexico touching upon this point were read with in- in terest FEAR NEW REVOLT Emanating from Mexico City the dispatches threw no positive light lighton on the situation They said however however how how- ever that the decision of the Washington Wash Wash- Ington government to terminate the smuggling pact at the end of the first year of operation next Monda Monday Mon Mon- da day had given rise of the qu question of whether this move would be followed followed fol- fol lowed by the lifting of the arms em- em bargo Many 1 think one dispatch said that removal of the embargo would result in Increased revolutionary revolutionary activity against the Calles government In this connection Senat Senator r Norris of Nebraska chairman of the senate judiciary committee interpreted in in- termination of the convention convention con con- as an Invitation to revolution Uon tion and gun running declaring that It simply means that we are going to permit the shipping of arms and ammunition into Mexico without any restriction Chairman Borah of the senate foreign relations committee also viewed termination of the treaty as asan asan an act that would be regarded bythe by bythe the Mexican 1 people as an unfriendly ly gesture The smuggling convention has a direct bearing on the American ent- ent bargo against shipment of armInto arms arm Into Mexico Under the convention even if the embargo were lifted the United States would be required to notify Mexico 1 o of impending shipments shipments ship ship- ments from the United States States' of arms or any other commodities proscribed proscribed pro pro- pro pro- scribed from Importation under Mexican law |