File No. 812.00/9625a.
The Secretary of State to Certain Diplomatic Officers of the United States.1
Washington, November 7, 1913—10 p.m.
While the President feels that he can not yet announce in detail his policy with regard to Mexico, nevertheless he believes that he ought, in advance thereof, to make known to the Government to which you are accredited his clear judgment that it is his immediate duty to require Huerta’s retirement from the Mexican Government, and that the Government of the United States must now proceed to employ such means as may be necessary to secure this result; that, furthermore, the Government of the United States will not regard as binding upon the people of Mexico anything done by Huerta since his assumption of dictatorial powers, nor anything that may be done by the fraudulent Legislature which he is about to convoke. The President hopes that the Government to which you are accredited will see fit to use its influence to impress upon Huerta the wisdom of retiring in the interest of peace and constitutional government.
You will convey the foregoing to the Minister for Foreign Affairs.
- This telegram was sent to certain missions on the date here given, to others on November 8, 11 a.m., and on November 10, 2 p.m.↩