Mexican Festive Air Revived

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 43, 13 November 1937, Page 14

Mexican Festive Air Revived

MONTERREY. — The fcstivals of Mexican Independence, celebrated on September 14, 35 and 17, were marked here this yepr for tbe first time in several by old-fashioned Mexican pa'triotism, with its horsemanship, street dancing, and display of Mexican flags and costumes. Houses and shops showed the . tricoloured flag and the eagle and serpent; Mexican songs were heard everywhei;et The city dedieated two public works — a road and a kindergarten for poor children. The celebrations at tbe ' ' Grito, ' ' wben tbe f ainous sbout of Hidalgo is again repcatcd from tbe balconies, "Long live Mexico and death to bad government" — tbe words tbat; touched olf tbe war for independence — I were fervent witb patriotism, as Mexican idealism began to function again in accustomed cbanncls. j Wben Communists paraded Septem- '

ber 16, bowever, fewer tban 100 men — and there are almost 30,000 workers in Monterrey — could be mustered. They paraded in silence, and few turned out to see tbem. The difference in attitude was so marked that observers saw an essential cbange. Workers in Monterrey are roported to bave begun to dcnounce tne Russian dictator. Also, they are said to l'eel tbat tbe Mexican government is pro-labour and pro-education. 1