"Pancho Did It!"

With neat, precise, pince-nezzed Dwight Whitney Morrow out of Mexico and on his way to the London Five-Power Naval Conference (see p. 23), the New York Herald Tribune, staunchest Administration organ, felt free to report last week that Ambassador Morrow has not been especially popular with the "American Colony" in Mexico City. Reason (no reason was given by the cautious Herald Tribune): the Colony feels that Ambassador Morrow, unlike his predecessor, Ambassador James Rockwell Sheffield, has not fought to the last ditch for the individual rights of U. S. citizens in Mexico, but has promoted general amity between the nations at the expense of some individuals.

Having barely hinted the almost sacrilegious idea of Morrow,unpopularity, the Herald Tribune's able Jack Starr-Hunt made handsome amends with a pleasant human interest story, in his next despatch:

"Leaving behind him 'Pancho' and his home in Cuernavaca constitutes a genuine sorrow for Ambassador Morrow in his retirement from Mexico to the political life that confronts him in the Senate. . . . If money could do it Ambassador Morrow would transfer the entire town to the U. S. . . . Cuernavaca, capital of the State of Morelos, is the garden spot of the earth, in. the opinion of the diplomat.

"Ambassador Morrow delights in talking about Cuernavaca. He is boastful only on one subject, or rather a dual one. his Cuernavaca home and 'Pancho.' He becomes completely enwrapped in the subject of his garden in Cuernavaca as he leads the visitor about the old walls that have been rebuilt by Pancho; as he shows with genuine pride this or that plant that be himself has tended; and the swimming pool.

" 'It was the first modern swimming pool built in Cuernavaca,' the ambassador asserts, adding, 'and Pancho did it!'

"Pancho typifies, in the opinion of the ambassador, 'the real Mexican,' the diamond in the rough, the type of citizen representing those upon whom the future of Mexico is to be built. Pancho, who can neither read nor write, is an architect, designer, cabinetmaker and a skilled all-round artisan."

A further penetrating observation by Scribe Starr-Hunt:

"The [Anglo-U. S.] Christ Church congregation [at Mexico City] has its own weighty problems to solve, chiefly one that for 30 years has vexed the vestry: whether the preacher should pray first for the King or for the President of the U. S. The King has won out as a rule."

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