MEXICO: Troubles Scotched

The week was the most hopeful in many months for Mexico. Events:

Reply to Coolidge. In Mexico City, President Plutarco Elias Calles called in newsgatherers who found his heavy, brown features alight. He pointed with honest satisfaction to the Spanish translation of a paragraph from President Calvin Coolidge's speech a fortnight ago before the United Press Convention in Manhattan. In their original English, the words of President Coolidge read:

"I am glad to report that the Mexican Ambassador has recently declared to me that she [Mexico] does not intend to confiscate our property,...