File No. 812.00/10437.
The American Ambassador to Great Britain to the Secretary of State.
London, November 8, 1913—5 p.m.
Department’s November 7, 10 p.m. Sir Edward Grey has asked time to answer, wishing to confer with the Prime Minister. He desires to know whether or not your telegram has been sent also to German and French Governments, as they had conferred with him concerning the President’s previous request to do nothing until the President’s communication should be received, and he felt bound to inform them of his next action. I said to him that the present effort was to prevent the necessity for intervention. He asked “Suppose Huerta eliminated: what then?” I answered that he might consider Huerta’s elimination certain, the question now being: Shall he be eliminated with or without the moral support of the British Government? Sir Edward’s last words were “It is a very grim situation.”