Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 8, 1914

File No. 812.6363/110.

Rear Admiral Sir C. Cradock to the British Ambassador at Washington.⁹⁶

[Telegram—Paraphrase.]

Vera Cruz, May 7, 1914.

From the conditions known to me and judging by my own experience I think it would be rash if American citizens relied too implicitly on Mexican assurances and returned now to the oil-fields. Their return might be misunderstood, and a situation might arise which would imperil all foreign interests.

[Unsigned.]

96. Handed to the Department of State by the British Ambassador May 7, 1914.