MEXICO: Priests Must Register

President Emilio Fortes Gil revealed, last week, that prior to the dynamiting of his private train (TIME, Feb. 18), he received an anonymous warning:

Slave, commend thy soul to God! Thou shalt not reach Mexico City!

The instinctive reaction of the chief executive to what he considers Catholic attempts upon his life came, last week, when SeƱor Fortes Gil authorized an order that every priest in Mexico must register his address with the authorities before Feb. 27, 1929, "In view of the subversive conduct of the high Catholic clergy in Mexico." The Protestant...

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