812.00/15752½: Telegram
President Wilson to the Secretary of State
[Received 11 p. m.]
Approve communication drawn by conference and plan for session in New York on Wednesday to consider second step. Would suggest, however, that this point be dwelt upon: the first and most essential step in settling affairs of Mexico is not to call general elections. It seems to me necessary that a provisional government essentially revolutionary in character should take action to institute reforms by decree before the full forms of the constitution are resumed. This was the original program of the revolution and seems to me probably an essential part of it.
Approve instructions to Admiral Caperton.15