Office of the Historian

411.12 Gomez and Robio/1: Telegram

The Ambassador in Mexico (Clark) to the Secretary of State

Mexico, June 8, 1931—6 p.m.
[Received 9:50 p.m.]

184. Reference killing of two Mexican youths in Ardmore, Oklahoma.

Pursuant to telephone conversations between Johnson and Lane,10 I called on the President and Minister for Foreign Affairs this afternoon, transmitted to each a copy of President’s Hoover’s telegram to President Ortiz Rubio, and expressed the sincere regrets of the Department and my own personal sympathy.

Clark
  1. Herschel V. Johnson, Chief of the Division of Mexican Affairs, Department of State, and Arthur Bliss Lane, Counselor of Embassy in Mexico.↩