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Show CURRENT EVENTS j Another Simplified Discssion of Wcr'd Happenings for Children and Adul':3. . . f .Ml Ali o ami UNITED STATES Before many weaka have passed, I our country nml Mexico may again be I enjoying dldom.ith relations, i Thai means that our country may I recognize thu government of .Mexico anfll .send an envoy to Mexico City, 'capital of Mexico, to look after Ainer-! Ainer-! lean Interosts. Mexico also will send an envoy to Washington, our capital. At present our government dni not recognize the government ot Mexico and ha-H no relations with It. tn May -7, 1921. our government i proposed a treaty between the United States and Mexico This w.is called u treaty of amity and commerce thai means un agreement Intended t" bring I about friendship and trade between ' the two . ountrica. This treaty has not yet been accepted accept-ed by the Mexican government. Many DOtei bearing on the treaty have been exchanged between our state Department Depart-ment and the official at Mexico City. What our g.' rumen! waiita from I Mexico is a guarantee that the prop- rty of American Citizens In Mexico mines, oil wells and business houses will be protected by the Mexican government and not seized If a war or revolution occurs. i As soon as President Oor gon, head of the Mexican government. Is willing ; to give such a guarantee, there will be no further hindrance to our recognition recog-nition of Mexico. Till RUS81 wr. kSS IlDOJK Boris Bakhmt teff, Russian ambassador ambas-sador to the t'nited States, Is in the center of a storm In the L'nited State senate at Washington. While Bakhmt teff Is recognized ar-the ar-the Husslan ;unbasHador. he really represents no Kovernment at all. He tviis sent to America by the Kercmk; KOernment of Kussla, which wan overthrown by the bolshevik, or corn- munlat government. Now S mtOr William K. Borah of Idaho I: Investigating Hakhmeteff and may succeed in having him dismissed as ambussador and put out of the palatial pa-latial Russian embassy in which he lives. Senator Borah says Hakhmeteff ne-er ne-er was a properly authorized umba-ador, umba-ador, thai he spent for his own pui-pnscs pui-pnscs part of the $187,000,000 loaned to his government by the T'nltea States anil that he is a friend of (Jcn-eral (Jcn-eral Or tror'e Semencdf, who Is a - ClIsCil of" huvlntf oppressed the people of Siberia. I IM.l-Fl is K7TOR The Chinese civil war. which has i cauwed our government much concern, now Is practically over. (Jeneral Wu Pei-Fu, military leader of Central China, Chi-na, is the victor, fieneral Chang Tso-Lln, Tso-Lln, Maie hurlan fighter, baa been defeated de-feated General Wu Pei-Fu has won the respect re-spect of the world by the kindness and Kenoroslty lie has displayed toward the troops he conquered. His conduct has been similar to that of General Grant when Genera, Lee. leader of the Confederate forces, surrendered t the close of the Civil war. You will rmember from your history his-tory that (jeneral Grant allowed the defeated Confederate soldiers to tnke home their horsal and side arms. Instead In-stead of seizing them as he had a right to d i n the same way. General Pel-Fu fave all the defeated troops new clothing cloth-ing and extra pay. Many believe General Wu Pel-Fu will become one of the xreat leaders of China and will take an Important l rt in welding disorganized China Into one of the World's srreatest nations. |