I realize that next-to-nobody gives a flip about my burgeoning bookplate collection but I have tunnel vision in regard to what other people want as far as historical context goes. My preference would be to feature only local Ex-Libris plates but I take what I can find. Half of what I do find comes from a free book trough at McKay's in Knoxville, Tennessee or from thrift stores when I'm down there visiting my daughter. This was another freebie with a very pertinent topic: Mex ico. Apparently, just as now, we were at political loggerheads with the Mexican government over trade in the 1910s-30s. Then, it was in concerns to seized American properties by the Mexican President Cardenas. While I don't know much about the political context of said dispute I would guess that the mention of Trotsky, Europe and even Hitler in some of the copious political cartoons suggests a socialist-communist bent to the rationale for expropriation. Regardless, the subject, content and bookplat...