File No. 812.00/15135.
The Brazilian Minister to Mexico to the Secretary of State.
Mexico City, June 4, 1915—10 a.m.
603. On account of lack of direct communication Foreign Office earnestly requested me to ask you kindly to transmit the following messages:
To Citizen General Venustiano Carranza,
Vera Cruz, or wherever residing:
I suppose that you have received a similar note from Mr. W. Wilson, the President of the United States of North America, sent under date of the second of this month to myself as well as the other revolutionary leaders in the country; and on the basis of this belief, in a manner most formal and solemn, I invite you, inspired solely by the welfare of our afflicted country, to give me frankly and categorically your opinion on this matter, in the knowledge that on the part of the Government which I represent there exists the strongest desire to evade a national evil because we understand that it is necessary to arrive at a unification of the revolutionary elements as the revolution has triumphed and there only exists, for the realization of its ideals, the extirpation of useless and unpatriotic personal considerations.
To this end I, as President of the Sovereign Revolutionary Convention in charge of the Executive Power, am disposed to deliver the executive power within twelve hours to the Provisional President who may be nominated by the revolutionists united.
I exhort and invite you to consider this question, inspired solely by the welfare of the nation, in order that an armistice may be decreed at once with the object that the commissions appointed may come and go with freedom.
Neither your party nor ourselves nor anyone will be able to deny that the principles we sustain are similar and in obedience to identical aspirations.
I attentively request you to forward an immediate reply.
Roque Gonzalez Garza.
Mexico, June 3, 1915.
To General Francisco
Villa.
Juarez City, or wherever residing:
I suppose that by this date you are acquainted with the declarations made by President Wilson, which constitute a demand on the commanders of forces in the Republic.
I request you by this means of communication to give me your opinion on this matter in order that I may know what to expect, as the inhabitants of the territory dominated by us, the City of Mexico and the Convention are inclined to favor the unification of the revolution. I wish to know your idea in this question in order to pursue a course and work as always in harmony with yourself.
I beg of you also to transmit my wishes to Governor Maytorena and General Angeles and the remainder of the revolutionary leaders.
Roque Gonzalez Garza.
Mexico, June 3, 1915.