THE PRESIDENCY: The Coolidge Week: Oct. 10, 1927

¶ When he stopped to think of it, President Coolidge must have thought of last week as his Latin-American Week. Dwight Whitney Morrow, his new ambassador to Mexico, was preparing to advance upon Mexico City (see POLITICAL NOTES).

On Thursday, telephone communication between Washington and Mexico City was established and the Presidents of the two countries, each surrounded by subordinates with headphones, inaugurated the service by reading to each other a formally prepared dialog from their respective ends of the wire. President Coolidge read first: "I am deeply impressed, President Calles, by...

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