POLITICAL NOTES: MEXICAN GENERAL

POLITICAL NOTES

"Mexican General"

Alvan Tufts Fuller, freespoken Governor of Massachusetts, has a freespoken secretary, one Herman A. MacDonald. Referring publicly to a lately deposed Massachusetts official, Secretary MacDonald called the official "nutty" and said that he was being chased by squirrels. He also called him a "Mexican General."

As a result, last week, Secretary of State Kellogg, Mexican Ambassador Don Manuel C. Tellez and Governor Fuller received copies of a letter to Governor Fuller from Senor R. G. Dommguez, Mexican Consul at Boston. ". . . An offensive phrase against the Mexicans,"...

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