Papers Relating to the Foreign Relations of the United States, With the Annual Message of the President Transmitted to Congress December 3, 1912

File No. 312.11/834a.

The Acting Secretary of State to the American Ambassador.

No. 966.]

Department of State,
Washington, September 5, 1912.

Sir: With reference to the Department’s telegraphic instructions of September 5, I have the honor to inclose to you herewith presentation copy of the note therein discussed,¹ which the President directs you to present textually to the Mexican Government.

You will, when presenting the note, state officially, but orally, that such are your instructions.

As stated in the Department’s telegram under reference, the Department desires from you, by telegraph, such suggestions and recommendations as to policy or substance as you think it necessary to give, or in case there are any points in the text herewith transmitted to you which do not seem to you well stated or apposite.

I am [etc.]

Huntington Wilson.

1. See revised draft, the American Ambassador to the Minister for Foreign Affairs, September 15.