MEXICO: New and Square Deal

"New and Square Deal"

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As Mexico prepared last week to inaugurate a new President her Government, with a momentous change of heart, was thanking its stars for President Roosevelt and Ambassador Josephus Daniels.

"Roosevelt owes his election largely to Catholics!" was the alarm sounded last year by Mexico City's independent daily El Universal Gráfico. Its editor thought he smelt a Papist in charge of Roosevelt patronage. Belief that the President, impelled by the Church, would crack down on Mexico's counter-clerical government was so strong that the official daily National took...

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