Late Mexico News

With further demonstrations forecast, last night’s serious rioting was tonight laid to the National Democratic Party, a large group with strong Nazi and Fascist leanings which is bitterly opposed to President Cardenas’ Party of the Mexican Revolution. Last night’s rioting was the second demonstration staged by the new party, 5,000 strong, which is heeded by Gen. Ramon Iturbe and Col. Bolivar Sierra, two deputies who were ousted from the Mexican Revolution Party.

It was instigated as a demonstration hostile to President Cardenas by 200 agents provocateurs led by the well-known agitator Adolfo Leon Ossorio, according to El Popular, organ of the Confederation of Mexican Workers (C.T.M.) The anti-Jewish phase, the newspaper said, began accidentally when a young Mexican jostled Jacob Glantz. The incident attracted a mob of several thousand who tried to lynch Glantz and his wife. A prior demonstration took place last Tuesday in protest against permission for Loyalist volunteers to reenter the country on returning from Spain.

El Popular drew a parallel between the methods employed by last night’s mob and those the Nazis have used in Germany, and linked the recent incidents to operation of the dictator states’ recent wide-spread propaganda in Mexico.

A highly qualified official told Havas tonight: “The National Democratic Party’s fresh political agitation is not dangerous in itself, for the party is weak and without political influence among the great masses of the population. The danger lies, however, in the fact that this party appeals to the lowest instincts of the population, and since the Mexican masses are easily aroused, its efforts may have bloody consequences. The Government must seek to prevent such agitation with all its energy, for with a new presidential election in sight it might influence the political life of the country in a manner contrary to the ideal frequently expressed by Cardenas that the campaign should be fought on the plane of ideas and not of agitation and coercion.”