812.6363/3096a: Telegram
The Secretary of State to the Ambassador in Mexico ( Daniels )
39. The Department appreciates the full mail despatches which you have been sending in connection with the petroleum controversy, but requests that henceforth, in view of the critical turn of events, important developments be transmitted briefly by telegraph, full reports by pouch.
Please endeavor to ascertain whether the companies will have 15 working days during which to resort to administrative action for revocation of the declaration of expropriation as provided in Article 5 of the Law of Expropriation of November 23, 1936.
Regardless of whether the companies will be granted this 15 working days interval, in your opinion is there any possibility of a settlement being arrived at in the near future.
In following developments please consider the possibility of German, Italian or Japanese activities, such as negotiations for the purchase of oil.