MEXICO: Testimonial

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With pomp and circumstance, Pascual Ortiz Rubio, President-Elect of Mexico, returned to his home last week. A crowd of generals and a military band awaited him on the station platform, airplanes swooped overhead. Over the door of his villa ran the legend: BIENVENIDO ("Welcome"), formed of red carnations and asparagus fronds. Perched perilously on the garden wall were a number of orators from the Federal District Commission, loudly announcing that the next Mexican Govern-ment is destined to become potent in world affairs. Three hundred prominent Mexican ladies arrived in automobiles to give the Mexican embrace to the First-Lady-Elect of Mexico, Senora Carmen de Ortiz Rubio.

"This typically Mexican scene," cabled esthetic Herald Tribune Correspondent Jack Starr-Hunt, "was capped by a military band that played soft, doleful music, contrasting sharply with the brilliance of the blue sky overhead. . . ."

Touched as he was by this extraordinary reception, President-Elect Ortiz Rubio did not forget to give a good testimonial to his recent hosts in the U. S.

"I return to Mexico," said he, "with the most agreeable impressions of the United States. President Hoover is an honest, intelligent and cultured man."