Mexican Government Absolutely Opposed to Antisemitism and Identiffies Itself Entirely with Principle

The Minister of the Interior, Senor Carlos Palacios, the chief of the Mexican Cabinet and the most powerful figure in the Government, gave an interview to the J.T.A. representative here to-day, following up the interview which he had yesterday with the Minister for Foreign Affairs, Senor Gernaro Estrada (reported in yesterday’s J.T.A. Bulletin), in which the Minister declared that the Government is absolutely willing to help the evicted Jewish market-traders to establish themselves in other market-places and to do whatever is necessary to promote their economic interests.

The Government will severely punish everyone attacking or beating Jews, or inciting against the Jews, he further declared, and he asked that the Mexican Jews should, without fear, submit any complaints, which they may have to the proper authorities.

The Minister of the Interior absolutely disavowed the declarations made by the antisemitic leaders at they have any connections with the Government, and he ed himself to a definite statement that he is entirely op to antisemitic tendencies, and that the present Government identifies itself, completely with the ideas and principles laid down by the former President of the Republic, Senor Calles, in 1924, when he invited the Jews to come and settle in Mexico.

This statement by the Minister of the Interior is of particular importance in view of the belief that there was considerable difference of opinion existing between the Foreign Ministry and the Ministry of the Interior on the question of the Jews in Mexico, the Foreign Office, it being said, being alive to the unfortunate effect which the anti-Jewish and anti-foreign agitation is creating abroad, but the all-important Ministry of the Interior, in whose hands lies the control of alien permits, regulations and of other facilities for foreigners living in Mexico, taking no heed of the effect produced abroad.