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.

The Secretary of State to the Ambassador of Great Britain.⁵¹

The Secretary of State presents his compliments to his excellency the Ambassador of Great Britain and has the honor to inform him that the Government of the United States has this day recognized the de facto Government of Mexico, of which General Venustiano Carranza is the Chief Executive.

The American Ambassador at London has been instructed, by cable, to advise the Government of Great Britain of the fact.

Department of State,
Washington , October 19, 1915.

51. The same mutatis mutandis to all European members of the Diplomatic Corps at Washington, and to the Japanese Ambassador and the Ministers of China and Siam.