Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 2, 1913

File No. 711.1215/389a.

The Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

No. 671.]

Department of State,
Washington, December 11, 1911.

Sir: I enclose herewith a copy of the reply of the Embassy of Mexico⁶ to the Department’s memorandum of October 6, 1911, in regard to the Chamizal controversy, which was communicated to you by this Department’s No, 576 of October 13, 1911.⁷ I also enclose a copy of the Department’s latest memorandum⁸ to the Embassy concerning the same case.

You are requested to keep in touch with the matter at the Mexican Foreign Office, and to make such informal and oral representations from time to time as may be deemed appropriate, to the end of expediting favorable action on the part of the Mexican Government.

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.

6. The note of October 12.
7. Not printed.
8. Of October 18.