File No. 812.00/23426.
Mr. R. Zubáran Capmany, representing General Carranza to the President and the Secretary of State.
memorandum.
The First Chief of the Constitutionalist Army, fully realizing the menace to the good relations between the people of Mexico and that of its neighbouring Republic, the United States, arising out of the wanton conduct of the usurper Huerta, has delegated the undersigned to make clear the feelings and the attitude of the Constitutionalists, and, indeed, of the people of Mexico toward the United States.
The United States and Mexico have, at present, friendly and peaceful relations, which not only the Constitutionalists, but the vast majority of the people of Mexico desire firmly to maintain. Such relations should not be affected by the acts of Huerta, since they do not voice the real sentiment of the nation. Consequently, it will be the purpose of the Constitutionalists to strive to continue unaltered those relations between the people of the two Republics, and to resolve all differences in the same spirit.
The First Chief feels that the Government of this nation entertains sentiments identical with those of the people of Mexico. This conviction on his part is based on his confidence in the spirit of justice and the high moral principles which have always inspired the acts of the President and the Secretary of State, both of whom are esteemed as the incarnation of the virtues of the American people. He also feels that the policy followed, and to be followed, in his struggle against the usurper, Huerta, in giving due protection to the lives and property of all American citizens and all foreigners who maintain strict neutrality is a manifest assurance of both the purpose and the ability of the Constitutionalists to discharge the international obligations of Mexico within the territory which they now, and will hereafter, control.
Pursuant to his instructions, the undersigned embraces this opportunity to express the sentiments of personal friendliness and appreciation [Page 497] with which the First Chief is animated for the President of the United States and the Secretary of State.
Washington, D. C, May 4th, 1914