27 NOVEMBER 1926, Page 2

The American State Department has been prepa for some time

to call. Mexico sharply to order. This always a difficult _ thing to. do with effect, as Mexico .slippery and evasive, and unless a rebuke from Washing enjoys a good. Press at home, it falls rather flat.. last time that Mr. Kellogg wished to raise the Meal question he began a campaign in. the Press so abruP that public opinion failed to follow him, and the -ss incident was the reverse of impressive. The Washingt correspondent of the Times detected a few days a a more elaborate preparation of the ground when State Department begin to work up opinion against " Mexican-fostered Bolshevist hegemony interven tureen the United States and the Panama Canal." 'afortunately, though' all Americans hate Bolshevism, w of them ,believe that any Central American is really fected with Bolshevism.

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