812.6363/3028a: Telegram

The Acting Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Mexico ( Darnels )

218. Please telegraph briefly with respect to report published in New York Times today that President Cardenas has decreed nationalization of 350,000 acres of oil lands under lease to Standard Oil of California and Richmond Petroleum Company as part of nationalization of 2,000,000 acres of oil territory in Tabasco, Campeche and Chiapas.

Welles