British "Unfriendly"
Stand on Seizure of Oil Firms Blamed Mexico City, May 14.
Mexico has severed diplomatic relations with Great Britain, according to an official announcement here today.
Mr. Owen St, C. O'Malley, the British Minister to Mexico, has been informed by the Mexican Foreign Minister, Gen. Eduardo Hay, that the reason for the step is twofold; Tie "unfriendly attitude" of the British Government over Mexico's re= ut expropriation of all fields and.
2. The demand made by Great Brita: for the payment of the £25,000 annum instalment asked for in comicetion with. British losses arising out of Mexican revolutionary activities in the' past thirty years.
A cheque for this sum, with accumulated interest, was handed over simultaneously with the announcement that diplomatic relations between the two countries had been severed, at the formation of a Pop lar Front.
In reasoned star the Natior al Executive Committee, "whi recognizes the existence of liberal minded people outside the Labour Party," expresses ave concern at the outlook for peace and Leftist coalition democracy. A formed for ousting the. National Gover ent would not, it says, be in the interests of the nation, or of international peace.—Reuter.
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