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President Wilson to the Secretary of State 18

Windsor, Vt., August 11, 1915—10 a. m.
[Received 10:23 a. m.]

I think it would be unwise for the conference to take for granted or insist upon the elimination of Carranza. It would be to ignore some very big facts. It seems to me very important that the plan now formed should leave the way of action open in any direction and not assume a beginning over again with a clean sheet of paper to write on. Carranza will somehow have to be digested into the scheme and, above all, the object of the revolution will have to be in any event conserved.

Woodrow Wilson
  1. Then in New York.↩