812.00/15864a
The Secretary of State to President Wilson
My Dear Mr. President: I enclose you a stenographic report of our two conferences on Mexico held here in Washington.16 I do not know as you will care to read them, but I thought you might wish to see the lines along which developed the definite understanding which we reached.
Necessarily the report is more or less fragmentary on account of the informal nature of the conference; separate conversations going on at the same time, and some of them in Spanish, prevented a full and accurate report.
I endeavored, at the outset, to clear away as far as possible the discussion of principles and abstractions, in order that we could get down to the practical points to be discussed.
I also enclose a printed copy of the communication to be sent to the chiefs of the factions.17 . . .
Faithfully yours,
- Not printed.↩
- For the communication as sent, see Foreign Relations, 1915, p. 735.↩