File No. 812.00/17056.
The Confidential Agent of the Constitutionalist Government of Mexico to the Secretary of State.
Mr. Secretary: Upon the announcement of the conferences which were to be held between your excellency, as Secretary of State of the American Government, and the representatives of the Republics of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Bolivia, Uruguay and Guatemala, my natural impression was that their object would be to examine the Mexican situation from the standpoint of international law, in order to appraise the respective weight and attitude of the contending parties and factions, with a view to granting recognition to the one which should fulfill the requirements and conditions prescribed by international practice in such cases; but the insistency with which the press has been reporting that these conferences were for the purpose of adopting and had even already adopted a plan of pacification in Mexico, and the declarations which the daily newspapers ascribe to your excellency, have caused just alarm to the Constitutionalist Government, presided over by Mr. Carranza, who instructs me to tell your excellency that although he is not aware of the exact nature of these conferences, he has heard that Mexican affairs are discussed therein with the idea of determining a mode of settling them.
Mr. Carranza and the persons cooperating with him are thoroughly convinced that if the American Government were acquainted with the real Mexican situation it would realize that the only possible, just and acceptable solution would be to allow the revolution to take its natural, course until the complete triumph of the party which represents the greatest needs and popularity.
The Constitutionalist Government, as represented by Mr. Carranza, refrains from expressing any opinion with regard to the conferences being held, for it does not know their character or the conclusions reached in them, and because it does not wish to furnish a pretext for the supposition that it tacitly consents to them; but at the same time it deems it its duty to make expressly known to the [Page 735] American Government the displeasure with which the Mexican Government and people would look upon any act which might have the effect or tend to frustrate the triumph, already practically attained, over the hostile reactionary factions by the Constitutionalist Army, which represents the ideals and hopes of the Mexican people.
I reiterate [etc.]