File No. 312.11/1257.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

[Telegrams—Paraphrases.]

102. Minister for Foreign Affairs De la Barra, informed me today that he expected to be able to advise me officially within two days that our views on the Chamizal case would be accepted and that a satisfactory arrangement of the Tlahualilo case would be proposed.

I handed him a paraphrase of the Department’s No. 98, March 11, 6 p.m., but as he was just leaving for an official function he simply said such an arrangement would be contrary to Mexican law. I told him that our position would probably be supported by the representatives of France, Germany, Great Britain and Spain.

Henry Lane Wilson.