MEXICO: Sudden Flip-Flop

Hitler's sweep through France did more to make Mexico see eye to eye with Washington than years of diplomatic talk. Last week as Nazis goose-stepped in Paris, the Mexican Government, which has played with or tolerated every ism in the atlas in the past few years, suddenly decided that it had better get in step with the Colossus of the North, if & when the Colossus decides what it is going to do.

First indication that the Government had decided to clean out Nazi agitators, Communist revolutionaries, fomenters of continental unrest and...

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