File No. 812.00/1143.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Chargé d’Affaires.
Referring to the conversation between his excellency the Italian ambassador and the Acting Secretary of State on March 21 last, the Department of State has the honor to state that it has to-day received from the American ambassador at Mexico City a telegram announcing the fact that the royal Italian minister at that capital has addressed to him a note asking to be informed what the attitude of the Government of the United States will be relative to the suspension of the constitutional guaranties by the Mexican Government with regard to its application to American citizens. The Department of State believes, under the circumstances, that it is advisable to furnish the royal Italian embassy with the contents of a communication made by the American Embassy at Mexico City to the Mexican minister for foreign affairs, in pursuance of the cabled instructions of this Department, which reads as follows:
[Here follows the complete text of the instructions to the American chargé d’affaires, dated March 16, 1911; see above.]
Washington, March 31, 1911.