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. 812.00/2037.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Extract.]

American Embassy,
Mexico, May 31, 1911.

No. 610.]

My Dear Mr. Knox: * * * On the next Saturday [a week after the departure of President Diaz for Vera Cruz], May 27, the resident diplomatic corps, in compliance with advices from the foreign office, paid its first official visit to the Provisional President, and upon this occasion, as dean of the diplomatic corps, I made some brief remarks of congratulation to Mr. de la Barra (copy inclosed,¹ together with a copy of the reply thereto¹). Since this event nothing of prime importance has occurred except the definite announcement of the new cabient.

I am [etc.],

Henry Lane Wilson.

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