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Show MEDIATION PLAN HASOQLLAPSED BOLIVIAN MINISTER TOLD THAT BLAME RESTS SQUARELY ON CARRANZA. Time Seems Inopportune for Mediation Media-tion Subject, and South American Representatives Will Await Developments. Washington. Efforts toward Latin-American Latin-American mediation In the Mexican crisis, favored by Carranza officials, collapsed Monday without having reached the stage of a formal proposal pro-posal to the United States. It was made plain by Secretary Lansing to Ignaclo Calderon, minister of Bolivia, who called with the intention in-tention of asking whether the United States would entertain an offer of the services of its southern neighbors to aid In avoiding war, that the Washington Wash-ington government sees nothing in the situation that would warrant arbitration arbitra-tion proceedings. Mr. Lansing talked with the minister minis-ter for half an hour and is understood under-stood to have told him that the blame for the grave outlook rested squarely upon General Carranza. The attitude of the United States" was so fully outlined out-lined that Mc Calderon did not mention men-tion directly the original purpose of his visit. ' When the minister left the state department he said the time "seemed inopportune" and that for the present pres-ent the diplomatic representatives of six Sputh and Central American countries coun-tries ao had approached the Mexican embassy on the subject of mediation and received assurance that the Carranza Car-ranza government was favorable to the principle, would not tender their good offices to the United States. He Indicated that the attempt to arrange ar-range mediation might be renewed if General Carranza's reply to Secretary Lansing's last note furnished any basis on which the proposal could be founded. found-ed. The United States now is waiting wait-ing for Carranza's final word in reply re-ply to the note sent demanding release re-lease of the prisoners taken at Carrizal Carri-zal and a forma! diplomatic announcement announce-ment of intentions. |