Mexico City, Sept. 10. President Lazaro Cardenas, speaking before the International Congress Against War and Fascism, today attacked the doctrine permitting a nation to protect its citizens' investments in foreign countries.
He said the policy resulted in "diplomatic war followed by economic war and then even by armed war." "A citizen who leaves his countr: the President said, "must accept all the circumstances."
President Cardenas said the concentration of wealth was one of the causes of war and defended the expropriation of foreign oil properties in Mexico. "Wealth which is neither the product of work nor capital should be enjoyed by all" he declared.
The President also protested against wars on and the bombing of open cities.
The Chief Executive, who suspended diplomatic relations with Great Britain last May 13 in a dispute over land payments and as an aftermath to the expropriation of British oil properties in Mexico, received a great ovation from the delegates to the Congress when he stated his policy.—United Press.
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