Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 7, 1911

File No. 812.00/1766.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegram—Paraphrase—Extract.]

Mexico, May 19, 1911.

This morning the minister for foreign affairs said he was retaining foreign portfolio solely in order to have direct charge of relations with the United States, and that in his manifesto to the Mexican people he would speak of the great service I had been able, on account of our personal friendship, to render in maintaining good relations between our two countries.

Wilson.