Fear?

General Adolfo de la Huerta, President of Mexico in 1920, now out of reach of his enemies at Los Angeles, Calif., was reported last week to have received pressing overtures from revolutionaries in Mexico to return and lead them against the Calles regime. The revolutionary forces: 1) 6,000 Yaqui and 1,500 Mayo Indians in Sonora; 2) General Nicholas Fernandes, once Pancho Villa's chief of staff, with, miscellaneous forces said to be armed and to total 6,000 men, with their base in Chihuahua.

In Mexico City last week President Calles said: "Mexico would be willing to submit to the Hague Arbitration Tribunal the dispute with the United States over the new Mexican Alien Land and Petroleum laws, if it were necessary to make such a sacrifice to avert more serious difficulties. . . . We know, from painful experience, and history confirms this, that arbitration courts adopt the viewpoints of the strong nations, which always dominate. But of two evils, choose the lesser."

As these remarks jibed ill with President Calles' former instance upon enforcement of the oil laws, they were interpreted to mean that he now fears a revolution in Mexico should the U. S. withdraw recognition of his government.