812.001C13/81: Telegram
The District Attorney of Webb County, Texas ( Valls ) to the Secretary of State
[Received December 16—1:05 a.m.]
I thank you for your telegram of today excepting that part of it expressing astonishment at my contemplated action to arrest Calles.
A government that has given diplomatic immunity to a fugitive from justice and thrown its protecting arms around the greatest exponent of Bolshevism in the Western Hemisphere should express no surprise at the honest efforts of patriotic officials to fearlessly enforce the laws of Texas. My Government’s conduct in this particular only postpones the day of reckoning when Calles will be brought to the bar of public justice to face a courageous judge and an incorruptible jury in Webb County.