File No. 812.00/15183.
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Mexico City, June 9, 1915—10 a.m.
617. I regret to inform you that Convention has postponed discussion of the President’s statement, and instead of getting down to do sane work for union and peace is pitifully losing its time in useless discussion relative to dissensions between certain groups of their own members and dissensions between the Zapatista leaders and President Garza. Delegate Soto y Gama, personal representative of General Zapata and the most influential leader in the Convention, amuses himself daily in making inflammatory speeches in the course of which the United States, President Wilson, Secretary of State Bryan, Mr. West and myself are insulted in the most unwarranted, cruel and unbearable manner.