19163 An Unofficial Commission 



This was signed by Amos Pinchot, Lillian D. Wald, 

 Oswald Garrison Villard, Frederick Lynch, and 

 Crystal Eastman. 



Having telegraphed my acceptance, I started for 

 El Paso, expecting to meet there Bryan and Frank 

 P. Walsh, who had been selected as the other two 

 American representatives. Afterward, however, they 

 decided not to join the commission; Moorfield Storey storey and 

 and Paul U. Kellogg were then appointed in their Kfll ss 

 stead. Storey is a leading jurist of Boston, a fine, 

 strong man of the old-time type, with Puritan con- 

 science unimpaired, Kellogg a wise young man of 

 broad, humanitarian sympathies, who edits The 

 Survey. Crystal Eastman, an active liberal, served 

 'as secretary. 



The Mexican delegates were Luis Manuel Rojas, Rojas and 

 Modesto C. Rolland, and "Dr. Atl." Rojas is >r- 

 director of the Biblioteca Nacional of Mexico, and 

 presided over the Constitutional Convention at 

 Queretaro in 1917. An unusually intelligent and 

 scholarly gentleman of sound judgment, his igno- 

 rance of the English language was more than com- 

 pensated by his intimate knowledge of Mexican 

 affairs. Rolland, an optimistic, friendly civil engineer 

 from Yucatan, with a good command of English, had 

 then, at least, an office in New York. "Dr. Atl" is 

 the Aztec pen name of a rather mysterious person, 

 the editor of a labor journal, a small, keen-eyed, 

 shrewd, and suspicious man who spoke no English 

 and viewed affairs, both in Mexico and the United 

 States, from the standpoint of discontent. He seemed 

 to have many enemies in El Paso, and an anonymous 

 clipping warned me to beware of him as a "gringo- 

 hater." 



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