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Show MEXICO PEEVED HBO. S. NOTE PRESIDENT CALLES DECLARES KELLOGG NOTE LITTLE SHORT OF INSULT American Secretary's Communication Also Contains An Open Threat He Says; Does Not Need Outside Out-side Help to Run Country Washington. President Calles of Mexico, in a statement issued by the Mexican embassy -here, asserted Secretary Sec-retary Kellogg's recent statement contained con-tained a "threat" against Mexico's sovereignty and that the implication that Mexico stood "on trial before the world" in the guise of a defend-and defend-and "in essence would only mean an Insult. Furthermore, President Calles added, add-ed, Mexico "does no accord to any foreigs country the right to Intervene Inter-vene in her domestic affairs, nor is she disposed to subordinate her international in-ternational relations to the exigencies exigen-cies of another country." Mexico, the statement continues, is conscious, of her international obligations obli-gations and is determined to comply with them, as a proof of which it mentions the establishment of claims commissions for the consideration of claims held by foreigners against Mexico for losses sustained during revolutions. President Calles also regrets that Secretary Kellogg mentioned in his statement reports of an impending revolution in Mexico "since this last affirmation tends to cast some alarm in the world in regard to the conditions condi-tions of my country." "The statement that the government govern-ment of the United States will continue con-tinue to support the government of Mexico only so long as it protects American interests and livas and complies with its international engagements en-gagements and obligations," he declares, de-clares, "embodies a threat to the sovereignty of Mexico that she can not overlook and rejects with all energy." en-ergy." Citing that "the statement under reference also affirms that the American Amer-ican ambassador has succeeded in protecting American as well as foreign for-eign interests," President Calles asserts as-serts that "if he had thus succeeded, he has no right to charge Mexico with failure to protect such interests, and attention should be called to the fact that said ambassador does not represent any other foreigner, but his fellow citizens, and Mexico could not admit that without her previous authorization, the American ambassador ambassa-dor should act in behalf of persons or interests alien to those of his country." "If the government of Mexico, as afirmed, is now on trial before the world," he says, "such is the case with the government of the United States, as well as those of other countries; coun-tries; but if it is to be understood that Mexico is on trial in the guise of a defendant, my government absolutely abso-lutely rejects with energy such imputation, impu-tation, which in essence would only mean an insult." |
