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

File No. 812.00/13766a.

The Secretary of State to the Brazilian Minister to Mexico.⁶⁹

[Telegram.]

Department of State,
Washington, November 13, 1914, 11 p.m.

323. Please convey to General Carranza and make public the following statement given out by the Secretary of State to-night:

Both General Carranza and the Convention at Aguascalientes having given the assurances and guaranties we requested, it is the purpose of the administration to withdraw the troops of the United States from Vera Cruz on Monday, November 23. All the persons there for whose personal safety this Government had made itself responsible have now left the city. The priests and nuns who had taken refuge there and for whose safety fears were entertained are on their way to this country.

Furnish copy of this to Silliman.

W. J. Bryan

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69. Same to Carothers reading first sentence “Convey to General Villa.” Same to Canova reading “Convey to General Gutiérrez.” Same to Embassies at London, Paris, Rome, Berlin, and Madrid, and Ambassadors of these countries here.