File No. 812.00/2483.
The Secretary of State to the Mexican Ambassador.
The Department of State presents its compliments to the Mexican Embassy and has the honor to acknowledge the receipt of the embassy’s [Page 522] note No. 625 of the 10th instant, calling attention to the alleged preparation within the United States of an armed movement by the partisans of Gen. Bernardo Reyes to initiate disturbances in Mexico, and requesting the Department to “issue suitable orders to prevent the disturbances above referred to.”
The Department has been glad to copy the Mexican note to the Attorney General for his information and in order that he may take such action as he may deem necessary for the purpose of preventing any violation of our neutrality statutes. The Department respectfully calls to the attention of the Mexican Embassy the various statements regarding this subject which it has heretofore made in the recent correspondence regarding the attitude of the United States in the matter of the unfortunate civil disturbances which lately existed in Mexico, and particularly to observe that it will not be possible for this Government to take any action in the premises unless there be proof going to show that the statutes of the United States have been violated, but that it will endeavor by all proper means to secure the observance of its statutes.
Washington, November 17, 1911.