812.00Detention/20: Telegram
The Ambassador in Mexico (Morrow) to the Secretary of State
[Received March 28—3:52 a.m.]
165. Department’s 124, March 12, 6 p.m., and 188, March 22, 1 p.m. I took up personally with Minister Estrada again this morning the question of the disposition of the troops at Fort Bliss. He told me that Ambassador Téllez and the Department seemed to be in accord but nevertheless no action had been taken by our Government. I told him that I hoped he could see his way to instruct Ambassador Téllez to acquiesce in having the matter disposed of in whichever way the Department thought best. He agreed that the matter was of no real importance except perhaps as a precedent. I suggested to him that he could avoid making it a precedent by letting it be disposed of as the Department should prefer, basing his assent upon an agreement expressed or implied that either was made or was believed by General Moseley to have been made at the time the troops were admitted into the United States.
While I did not promise to do this, he did not dissent from it and asserted again that he did not consider the question of any real importance.