MEXICO: Regular Pogrom

The prime factor that makes a nation fertile for fascism is a desperate internal situation. A minor prerequisite is a scapegoat minority population on which the fascist leaders can blame the nation's troubles, unite the nation behind them and against it.

No nation is so palpably lacking in minorities on which to blame its troubles as Mexico. But because some people think that Mexico has yet to bring an effective Government and a sense-making economy out of its 28-year-old "Revolution," because it proclaims itself a proletarian State, harbors Revolutionary Leon Trotsky and at...

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