Mexican Officials Reject Kellogg’s Communist Charge, Await Next U.S. Move

Mexican officials answered Secretary of State Kellogg’s statement on Communist activity in Mexico on Friday, the Associated Press reported from Mexico City. Foreign Secretary Saenz said Kellogg’s statement to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee did not prove the charge that Mexico was trying to establish a Bolshevist hegemony in Latin America, and said it was necessary to reject energetically any charge about the government’s relations with Russia.

Ricardo Trevino, secretary general of the Regional Confederation of Labor, telegraphed that the Mexican labor movement was antagonistic, not friendly, to Communism.

The dispatch said developments between the two countries were believed to hinge on possible action in Washington, including withdrawal of the American ambassador or lifting the embargo on arms shipments into Mexico. Federal troops continued pursuing rebels, and captured priests were to be deported.