Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 7, 1915

File No. 812.00/16614a, 17556b.

The Secretary of State to the Minister of Venezuela.⁵⁰

Department of State,
Washington, October 19, 1915.

My dear Mr. Minister: The Ambassadors of Brazil, Chile and Argentina, and the Ministers of Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala, who have been in conference with me in regard to the recognition of a government in Mexico, will, under instructions from their several Governments, recognize today the de facto Government of Mexico of which General Venustiano Carranza is the Chief Executive.

I am conveying to you this information informally at the instance of all the members of the Conference.

I am [etc.]

Robert Lansing.

50. The same to the Ministers at Washington of Columbia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Haiti, Honduras, Nicaragua, Panama, Paragray, Peru and Salvador.