Office of the Historian

File No. 812.00/7101.

The American Ambassador to the Secretary of State.

No. 1914.]
American Embassy,
Mexico, April 1, 1913.

Sir: I have the honor to enclose herewith for the information of the Department a memorandum of an interview held at the National Palace with the Provisional President of Mexico on March 27, 1913, at 5 p.m.

I have [etc.]

Henry Lane Wilson.

Memorandum of interview between the American Ambassador and the President of Mexico on March 27, 1913.

[Extract.]

Before leaving the Embassy for the National Place, the Ambassador made a memorandum of the three following matters to be discussed with President Huerta:1 * * *

(3) International Claims Commission.

The Ambassador called the President’s attention to a telegram he had shown Mr. de la Barra from an important business man now in Washington to another person of this city, in which it was assured that if the Mexican Government would adopt the idea of an international claims commission to take charge of the study and settlement of just claims, the present Government of Mexico would be immediately recognized by Washington. The President said that he had seen the telegram and that he was of the opinion that such course ought to be favorably considered by the Cabinet; that he was going to take it up in a most vigorous way at the next meeting to be held early next week and would personally bring the result of the Cabinet’s deliberations to the Ambassador’s attention.

  1. The first two matters are: (1) “General conditions throughout the Republic”; (2) “The Zapatista movement”; which are omitted as irrelevant.↩