DEFENDED HER DIGNITY

Evening Post, Volume CVII, Issue 145, 20 June 1924, Page 7

DEFENDED HER DIGNITY

WASHINGTON, 18th June. The Mexican Embassy ,has issued a statement announcing tlie determina-i-on of the Mexican Government not to n cede from its position demanding the recall of Mr. Cummins. It said that Mexico's reply to the British Government disagreed with the view that the request for Mr. Cumm'ins's recall constituted a discourteous act. It asserted as an elementary principle that any Government* at any time has the right to request other Governments to recall their diplomats, and it is & duty, under international comity, to withdraw them, and not to endeavour to impose them or. other countries. It, was fully realised that this attitude in defence of the national honour would mean the cancellation of the proposed mission 'to Mexico, but Mexico had only defended lier dignity as a sovereign nation

Ihe Mexican Government recently asserted that for years Mr. Cummins has keen persona non grata witli the Government, and accused him of lack of respect and courtesy, and even of willully making incorrect statements to his Government in reporting incidents that that the British Government had been avico asked to recall Mr. Cummins, and finally Mex lt o had decided that- he must be expelled, not as a diplomat but as a private person. '