File No. 812.00/15137.
[Untitled]
Mexico City, June 4, 1915—11 a.m.
602. My 600, June 3, 6 p.m. At half past ten last night Acting Secretary Foreign Relations called on me personally to deliver following answer:
In view of your attentive note of yesterday’s date in which on behalf of Mr. W. J. Bryan, Secretary of the Department of State of the Washington Government, [Page 696] was communicated to this Chancellery for the information of citizen General Roque Gonzalez Garza, President of the Sovereign Convention in charge of the Executive Power, the declarations made public by His Excellency Mr. Woodrow Wilson, President of the United States of North America, respecting the situation which on account of the civil war exists in the Republic of Mexico, I have the honor to inform you in reply that friendly sentiments appreciated; that the citizen President of the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention in charge of the Executive Power has taken into consideration the contents of the said note and he has decided that you be informed that he cordially appreciates the noble zeal with which you hasten to inform him of the sentiments of the President of the United States of North America respecting Mexico, which occupy his earnest attention as the declaration which he formulates in his character of friend and neighbor with the object of aiding the Mexican people to obtain an advantageous solution of the interior disturbances. This Government duly appreciates the interest that the American Government and people have manifested in favor of Mexico and you may indicate to W. J. Bryan that the Convention Government has been occupied for some time past in studying measures which may consummate the unification of the revolutionary elements and consequently the pacification of the country. Convention to consider besides [sic] the citizen President of the Sovereign Convention in charge of the Executive Power manifests to you through me for transmission to Secretary of State Bryan that for a legal and more complete form in which to resolve the transcendental matter which now claims our attention, he has ordered this important note from you to be sent to the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention not without manifesting that he has noted with regret that the final portion of this note contains remarks which are not in accord with the policy which up to the present time has been followed by the Government of Washington with the approbation of the Government and the people of Mexico. As soon as the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention directs I shall have the honor to inform you of its resolution.
Accept [etc.]
Ismael Palafox,
Oficial Mayor of the Department of Foreign
Relations.
Mexico, June 3, 1915.
To his excellency J. M. Cardoso de Oliveira,
Minister of Brazil in charge of American interests in
Mexico.