Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Address of the President to Congress December 5, 1916

File No. 812.00/17456

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Querétaro, March 13, 1916, 10 a.m.

During conference with Secretary Foreign Relations this morning he stated to me: “Should war result over the Columbus affair the position of the United States would be that of assisting the reactionaries as against the Constitutionalist Government.”

John W. Belt