812.5045/611: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Mexico ( Daniels )
253. With further reference to your 328, December 30, 7 p.m. Dr. Suarez and the Mexican Ambassador have just called upon me in order that the former might take his formal leave. I referred in my conversation to the impression you had gained from your interview with Señor Beteta. Both the Ambassador and the Mexican Secretary of the Treasury informed me that there was no ground whatever for any such impression on the part of the officials of the Mexican Government and that if Señor Beteta had received any such impressions as those indicated to you, they could only have been received from the Chairman of the Labor Board. They stated that they had made it especially and entirely clear to President Cardenas and to their Foreign Office that far from there being any pressure applied by the Government of the United States, the position assumed by this Government was entirely friendly and very understanding, and that it had been made evident to them that this Government believed the [Page 678] controversy between the oil companies and the Mexican Government was one which must be, and should be, settled without any outside interference. They conveyed through me to the President a message from President Cardenas expressing his deep appreciation of the friendly assistance rendered by this Government, and Dr. Suárez himself went out of his way to express his gratitude for the understanding spirit in which he had been received here and for the demonstrations of real friendship proffered by this Government.
Dr. Suárez desired to cable President Cárdenas with regard to this matter, but I urged him not to do so in view of the fact that he assured me that any false impression which might have been circulated had now undoubtedly been completely dispelled.