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SA ee persistently stoted thet they had no desire to foster solicarity or cooncra~ tion between “exico snd the Ynited States in the wer effort, but eircfully. -exploincd thet the groun did not represent the smerican Government or the U. S. army. This disvvowil of the United Strtes wis carricd to*such extremes tht when the group wos requested to produce 2 typierl anoricon cance during « ecrnivel being hid in Durctngo, the lenders refuscd to do 50, or to .pe rticinetc in the curnivil in any wy. Vhe scid thot the group leaders refused to teke ony port in locol civil defense, -nd refused to ~Llow members of the group to. wear civil defense buttons oS they were requcst.d ta do by loen] nuthoritics. She -Lso scid tht she wes ordered to t7 ke no ort in + civil dcfunse porvde. he also stted th.t the housc in whith they Lived in Durengo wis fillcd to overflowing with prcifist ramrhlets and Litersture, - * s , CoS ot ted thet “Spoorently the rrincinnl influence on the - erouD, ws exerted br S20, GER ond REE Sif of rhdladeinhia, end ae sigan aMof -cxico City, in instructor in the Yniversity of 2yheo whose officizl connsetion with the croup she wes uncble to et erin: she «sserted that the members of the porte told h cy tact QUan2 Wai of the k-. eee ae Han the United Statcoss is 2 oyskvr, and tazy intineted to her tht he favored the cetivities of their orasrizsticn. Members clso tol "her, she said, thet the rerson they held their summer mes ting 7s in Vexico ws so thot they vould be outside the jurisdiction of their lécrl arnft bo:rds -(ell-of the men being within cr. Peds NS thot <1l th.t wes necess ry in order to join one of th. azrouns wiselor the grlcetive servic: r-cistront to advise his lecal borrd thet ho wiehed te .tburd one of the mectingsain “oxico and rr. nel Seren seg imudictely grintid, The sid tact ent of the nm vty, by the nome aan Re oa who resided in the ct-te of ¥eshinston, told her ythet he would SSE ’o"the United Sttes <s rcguired ty his drsft bord, but ‘Wns erranging to co te Chin: with enother proup when she left. 3° stoted thrt th: croup os bocaom ng quite umrorulcr in . tin: of her dcorerture, -e3 its wemb.rs Led oricnded in one vy or S another pr.ctieslly “ll of the will bred wuxicun femilics in the Sitv.e. Jy. said thet the -ttitude in Purcneo towerd the w.r wis noticerbly unf«vorcble and she ~btribute ed this at lecst in port to the or.senes thers of mun rous. » dernns, She svid thet the strtament wes friquently necrd thet the United jt: tes had torpedoed hexietn ships and blamcd it en the Germans in ‘ordir te “ores Mexico into the war, She *ppesred to be unwilliaz to furni$Sh more informetion eoncerning the verman elcment in Dursngo. nme SETtcd thet the eameriesn Fricnds tervies Committee appeared to be a much l. reer oreania.tion thin shu it fireat believed, and thot apeerently it hed srours similer to the one of which she wos + mombur in ‘num-rous other forcien cl-ces, She seid thet in oxico its erouns were miintrincd «bt Vert Cruz, «coxieo ity, Terreon, ond Turrento, snd thet: similer group bound for Porto Rico was stopn:d in Florie: end is still beine d@bsined there, -¢ , ‘