“ZOOT-SUIT” CLASHES
REACTION AMONG MEXICAN STUDENTS Mexico City, June 26. Four hundred Mexican national university students demonstrated for two hours against the United States as a protest against the Los Angeles “Zoot-suit” clashes. The students booed Senor Kzequiel Padilla, Ambassador to Washington, and began to march to the United States Embassy, but the police barred the approaches. The students hissed stores with American signs, applaud, ed German signs and jeered Americans. Anti-Padilla groups are stated to have played on the feelings of the students, but only 400 out of 15,000 responded.—P.A.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume 78, 28 June 1943, Page 5
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