File No. 812.00/1441.
The President’s Secretary to the Secretary of State.
When receiving to-day the minister from Venezuela, the minister from Ecuador, the minister from Colombia and the minister from Costa Rica, the President took occasion to say that he had a very deep concern in the Mexican situation; that this Government hoped [Page 460] for a speedy termination of the troubles; that the rumors with respect to possible international complications (that is, complications with Japan) were groundless, and that he had not the remotest thought of intervention unless there should happen to be a state of anarchy in Mexico, and that even then he would intervene with great reluctance.