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

File No. 812.00/7455.

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American Embassy,
Mexico, May 11, 1913—1 p.m.

230. The Embassy’s May 10, noon. Mr. de la Barra now says that he agrees with me as to the correctness of my statement to the Department of State that this Government could not limit or subtract from the powers of a regularly appointed and accepted diplomatic officer except by the handing of passports, which is not contemplated by this Government.

Henry Lane Wilson.