ember 19, 1935, shortly before the Gold Shirts felt they were
powerful enough to attempt the overthrow of the Mexican Government and
the establishment of a fascist dictatorship, Rodriguez wrote to the
manager of the Ford plant, asking for the two ambulances which had
been promised the fascists by the Ford manager. Rodriguez had
organized his attempted Putsch carefully, with a women's ambulance
corps to care for the wounded in the expected fighting. The letter,
again translated almost literally, follows:

Sr. Manager of the Ford Company Nov. 19, 1935.
City
Highly Esteemed Senor:

This will be delivered to you personally by Sr. General Juan
Alvarez C., who comes with the object of ascertaining if that
company would be able to supply two ambulances which they had
already offered, for the transportation of the Women's Sanitary
Brigade on the 20th day of this month at 8 A.M.

Thanking you in advance for the references, I am happy to repeat
that I am at your command. Affectionately and attentively, S.S.

NICHOLAS RODRIGUEZ C.
Supreme Commander.

[Illustration: Letter from General Nicholas Rodriguez, Mexican
fascist leader, to the Ford manager in Mexico City, soliciting
employment for two proteges.]

In the street fighting that followed the attempted fascist Putsch a
number were killed and wounded. It was after this fight that Rodriguez
was exiled.

I am reproducing some of these letters from carbon copies, initialed
by Rodriguez, which were in his files. Why he initials carbon copies
I don't know, but I have a stack of his correspondence with Nazi
agents and almost all of his carbons are initialed.

On October 4, 1936, Allen wrote to the exiled fascist leader.
Ostensibly the letter invited him to address the Silver Shirts.
Actually it was for a special conference about "matters of vital
importance to us both." This letter was written when Schwinn was
holding conferences with Pelley to merge forces in a fascist united
front, and when Schneeberger was preparing to leave for Japan on a
training ship ordered up from the Canal Zone by the Japanese to take
him on board. The letter follows:

Dear General Rodriguez:

Upon receipt of this letter will you kindly communicate with me
and advise me whether it would be possible for you to come to
Los Angeles in the near