MEXICO: Big Stick

Ever since Franklin Delano Roosevelt's election uneasy Mexicans have been reflecting that the last U. S. Democratic President sent U. S. Marines to seize Veracruz briefly in 1914, sent Brigadier General John Joseph ("Black Jack") Pershing in 1916 to stalk Bandit Pancho Villa on Mexican soil. Last week Mexico City's independent Universal Grafico startled the Capital by printing the first Mexican attack on Democrat Roosevelt.

Dated from Los Angeles, Calif, and supposed to contain an authentic low-down on the President-elect, this dispatch warned Mexicans to beware March 4 because :

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